Andrew W Elliot

Andrew Elliot

Andrew Elliot (17281797) took over from James Robertson as acting colonial governor of the Province of New York in 1783. ...

The Guilty Madmen of Whitehall: Nations like Men Go Mad

The Uncanny

Advances in Motivation Science, Volume 2

Advances in Motivation Science, Elsevier's new serial, focuses on the ways motivation has traditionally been one of the mainstays of the science of psychology, not only playing a major role in the early dynamic and Gestalt models of the mind, but also playing an integral and fundamental part of the...

Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction between approach and avoidance motivation has a venerable history, not only within but beyond scientific psychology, and t...

Handbook of Competence and Motivation

This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other...

Handbook of Color Psychology (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

We perceive color everywhere and on everything that we encounter in daily life. Color science has progressed to the point where a great deal is known about the mechanics, evolution, and development of color vision, but less is known about the relation between color vision and psychology. However, co...

Goal-Directed Behavior (Frontiers of Social Psychology)

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer a...