Social PsychologyMcGraw-Hill, 1996 - 712 pages |
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... MOTIVATION Why do people perceive themselves in self - enhancing ways ? One explanation sees the self - serving bias ... motivated to enhance our self - image ( Sedikides , 1993 ) . Experiments confirm that a motivational engine powers ...
... MOTIVATION Why do people perceive themselves in self - enhancing ways ? One explanation sees the self - serving bias ... motivated to enhance our self - image ( Sedikides , 1993 ) . Experiments confirm that a motivational engine powers ...
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... motivation Extrinsic motivation FIGURE 4-4 When people do something they enjoy , without reward or coer- cion , they attribute their behav- ior to their love of the activity . External rewards undermine in- trinsic motivation by leading ...
... motivation Extrinsic motivation FIGURE 4-4 When people do something they enjoy , without reward or coer- cion , they attribute their behav- ior to their love of the activity . External rewards undermine in- trinsic motivation by leading ...
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... motivate us to help the person for his or her own sake . Such empathy comes naturally . Even day - old infants cry more when they hear another infant cry ( Hoffman , 1981 ) . In hospital nurseries , one baby's crying sometimes evokes a ...
... motivate us to help the person for his or her own sake . Such empathy comes naturally . Even day - old infants cry more when they hear another infant cry ( Hoffman , 1981 ) . In hospital nurseries , one baby's crying sometimes evokes a ...
Contents
INTRODUCING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | 1 |
Obvious ways in which Values Enter | 8 |
HOW WE DO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | 18 |
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