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Good social neuroscience, assert Harmon-Jones (psychology, Texas A&M U.) and Winkielman (psychology, U. of California at San Diego), avoids the charges of reductionism and can benefit both parent
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Contributed by researchers from the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Europe, the 20 essays in this volume explore recent research and theoretical developments on social motivation and i
It is motivation that drives all our daily endeavors, and it is motivation, or the lack of it, that accounts for most of our successes and failures. Motivation, however, needs to be carefully controll
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Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Biological under
