Cognitive Motivation by David Beswick HARDBACK 9781107177666

Cognitive Motivation\nby David Beswick\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Beswick\nTitle: Cognitive Motivation\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Cognition and cognitive psychology\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781107177666\nISBN-10: 1107177669\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nMotivation and cognition were treated as separate concepts throughout most of twentieth-century psychology. However, in recent years researchers have begun viewing the two as inextricably intertwined: not only does what we want affect how we think, but how we think affects what we want. In this innovative study, Beswick presents a new general theory of cognitive motivation, synthesizing decades of existing research in social, cognitive and personality psychol.