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Handbook of Motivation and Cognition February 11, 1986
The book combines trend-setting ideas from social cognition with in-depth analyses of fundamental issues from the classic motivational literature.

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Richard Sorrentino, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his M.A. degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. In addition to coediting all three volumes of the Handbook of Motivation and Cognition with E. Tory Higgins, he has coedited two other books, has published articles in personality, social, and educational psychology, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals.

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social context reference point, social category reference point, negative affective value, act identity structure, autobiographical reference points, esteem attendant, experienced negative value, prepotent identity, factual reference points, negative information value, nonbehavioral experience, low achievement motive, task attractiveness, positive affective value, reactive selectivity, piecemeal conditions, task diagnosticity, global motives, successful categorization, attitudinal inquiry, basis for affective response, affiliative goals, piecemeal processing, configural model, repeated attitudinal expression
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New York, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Review, American Psychologist, Cambridge University Press, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Englewood Cliffs, The Ontario Symposium, Annual Carnegie Symposium, American Psychological Association, Van Nostrand, Warm Look, New Haven, Yale University Press, Basic Books, Oxford University Press, San Francisco, University of Nebraska Press, University of Michigan, General Learning Press, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Nebraska Symposium, University of Chicago Press
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