Emotion and Motivation

Emotion and Motivation, Fourth Edition, blends unprecedented scholarship with a friendly and accessible writing style that makes the study of these subject areas both interesting and relevant.

This text includes both classic and cutting-edge research to reflect thinking about the area of emotion and motivation. Emotion and Motivation, Fourth Edition, encourages critical thinking by openly tackling ongoing controversies, contradictory findings, methodological limitations, and even replication failures in a balanced and constructive way. While highly rigorous, the text is also student-friendly, with a light, humorous tone. With real-world stories and an intuitive structure, Emotion and Motivation addresses questions undergraduates are most likely to ask: Why do we have emotions? How do they affect our lives? What motivates human behavior? How can we improve well-being?

Michelle (Lani) Shiota received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D from UC Berkeley in Social and Personality Psychology. She completed her post-doctoral training in the Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab. She is an Associate professor of social psychology at Arizona State University where she founded her lab, Shiota Psychophysiology Laboratory for Affective Testing (SPLAT lab) which investigates several basic questions regarding emotion, using a multi-method approach that integrates physiological, behavioral, cognitive, narrative, and questionnaire measures of emotional experience and its implications for social interaction.

Sarah Rose Cavanagh is an Associate Professor of Psychology and an Associate Director for Grants and Research for the CTE. She received her B.A. from Boston University in Psychology, she then went on to get her M.S. and Ph.D. from Tufts University in Experimental Psychology. At Tufts, her focus was in: Attentional Deployment as Emotion Regulation: Implications for Dysphoria & Subjective Well-Being.
As a new co-author on Emotion, she will add more important research on Motivation a subject that is often taught in conjunction with emotion in a majority of college courses. Cavanagh's contribution will help us to compete with Reeve, Understanding Emotion & Motivation.