Emotion and Motivation

Emotions and Motivation is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that focus on the study of motivation and emotion from a social psychological approach. Collects readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that focus on the study of motivation and emotion from a social psychological approach. Provides a representative sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup. Organized around two broad themes; affect and emotions; and social motivation. Includes introductions by two world-renowned researchers.

Marilynn B. Brewer is Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. Her primary research interests include social cognition, intergroup relations, and social identities and the self concept. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Intergroup Relations (with Norman Miller, 1996) and has served as President of the American Psychological Association and as editor of the journal Personality and Social Psychology.

Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at Oxford University. His current research interests include the reduction of intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, and the social influence of majorities and minorities. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Introduction to Social Psychology (edited with Wolfgang Stroebe and Geoffrey M. Stephenson, Third Edition 2001). He is founding co-editor of the European Review of Social Psychology.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Part I: Affect and Emotions

1

(132)

Introduction

3

(2)

The Nature of Emotion

5

(16)

W. Gerrod Parrott

Understanding People's Perceptions of Relationships is Crucial to Understanding their Emotional Lives

21

(26)

Margaret S. Clark

Julie Fitness

Ian Brissette

Emotional Experience in Close Relationships

47

(23)

Ellen Berscheid

Hilary Ammazzalorso

Poker Face, Smiley Face, and Rant `n' Rave: Myths and Realities about Emotion in Negotiation

70

(25)

Leigh Thompson

Victoria Husted Medvec

Vanessa Seiden

Shirli Kopelman

Mood and Emotion in Groups

95

(18)

Janice R. Kelly

Affect as a Cause of Intergroup Bias

113

(20)

David Wilder

Andrew F. Simon

Part II: Social Motivation

133

(186)

Introduction

135

(2)

On the Motives Underlying Social Cognition

137

(28)

David Dunning

Goal Setting and Goal Striving

165

(19)

Gabriele Oettingen

Peter M. Gollwitzer

Self-esteem

184

(20)

Abraham Tesser

The Self We Know and the Self We Show: Self-esteem, Self-presentation, and the Maintenance of Interpersonal Relationships

204

(21)

Mark R. Leary

Motivational Aspects of Empathic Accuracy

225

(22)

William Ickes

Jeffry A Simpson

Helping and Altruism

247

(34)

John F. Dovidio

Louis A. Penner

Social Comparison Motives in Ongoing Groups

281

(17)

John Darley

Aversive Discrimination

298

(21)

Amelie Mummendey

Sabine Otten

Author Index

319

(13)

Subject Index

332

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