Understanding human motivation : what makes people tick? /
Donald Laming.
- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-301) and index.
Three fundamental ideas -- 1. Determinism and free will -- 2. Terror -- 3. Sex -- 4. Consciousness -- 5. Boredom -- 6. Social conventions -- 7. The rate for the job -- 8. Loneliness -- 9. The moral sanction -- 10. Peer pressure -- 11. The crowd -- 12. Rage -- 13. ... And are we provoked to violence by the media? -- 14. Money -- 15. Gambling -- 16. Human motivation: how does it work?