Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior - Building on Jack Brehm's Contributions to Psychology (Hardcover, New)

In honour of Jack Brehm's contributions to contemporary psychology, this volume revolves around the focus of most of his work - motivation and emotion in social context. It demonstrates Jack Brehm's enormous influence on the field by highlighting how others have taken his ideas and expanded upon them, especially in the areas of dissonance and reactance processes and motivational and emotional intensity. influence. It begins with two personal chapters, one written by the book's editors, and the other by Jack's oldest friend in academia, Peter Schonbach. The remaining chapters provide current and significant extensions of Jack Brehm's work on social motivation. Jack's former students including Stephen Worcel, Camille Wortman, Robert Wicklund, Tom Pyszczynski and Eddie Harmon Jones, contribute over half of the chapters. A list of all his PhD students is included. The book concludes with a chapter by Jack Brehm, offering insight into his reflections on the field of social psychology, an overview of his new theory on social influence, and ideas for future study.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2004
First published:	February 2004
Editors:	Rex A Wright • Jeff Greenberg • Sharon S Brehm
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-4266-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Promotions
LSN:	0-8058-4266-7
Barcode:	9780805842661

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