Emotion and Motivation

The challenges in teaching this course include engaging students with a very wide range of relevant backgrounds (from none, to extensive understanding of neuroscience) and the difficult task of linking theoretical constructs in emotion to neural activity as well as to social and cultural phenomena. Essentially, Emotion and Motivation, Fourth Edition answers students' questions about why we have emotions and what motivates our behaviors through current
research in the field. This text makes the study of emotions and motivation compelling at the biological level, and also directly and personally relevant.