Motivation and emotion/Readings/Textbooks

Suggested textbooks

Suggested book references for tertiary-level study of motivation and emotion.

  1. Beck, R. C. (2004). Motivation: Theories and principles (5th ed.). Prentice Hall.
  2. Borod, J. C. (2000). The neuropsychology of emotion. Oxford University Press.
  3. Deckers, L. (2014). Motivation: Biological, psychological, and environmental (4th ed.). Allyn & Bacon.
  4. DeCatanzaro, D. A. (1999). Motivation and emotion: Evolutionary, physiological, developmental, and social perspectives. Prentice-Hall.
  5. Dalgleish, T. & Power, M. J. (1999). Handbook of cognition and emotion. John Wiley & Sons.
  6. Edwards, D. C. (1999). Motivation and emotion: Evolutionary, physiological, cognitive, and social influences. Sage.
  7. Ekman, P. & Davidson, R. J. (1994). The nature of emotion: Fundamental questions. Oxford University Press.
  8. Ferguson, E. D. (2000). Motivation: A biosocial and cognitive integration of motivation and emotion. Oxford University Press.
  9. Franken, R. E. (2006). Human motivation (6th ed.). Wadsworth Thomson Learning.
  10. Fox, E. (2008). Emotion science: Cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to understanding emotions. Palgrave Macmillan.
  11. Frijda, N. H. (1986). The emotions. Cambridge University Press, New York.
  12. Gollwitzer, P. M. & Bargh, J. A. (1996). The psychology of action: Linking cognition and motivation to behavior. Guilford Press.
  13. Gorman (*). Motivation and emotion
  14. Heckhausen, J. & Dweck, C. S. (1998). Motivation and self-regulation across the life span. Cambridge University Press.
  15. Kalat, J. W., & Shiota, M. N. (2012). Emotion (2nd ed.). Wadsworth.
  16. Lane, R. D. & Nadel, L. (2000). Cognitive neuroscience of emotion. Oxford University Press.
  17. Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J. M. (Eds) (2000). Handbook of emotions (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
  18. Minsky, M. (2006). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Simon & Schuster (Paperback).
  19. Nunez, R. & Freeman, W. J. (1999). Reclaiming cognition: The primacy of action, intention, and emotion. Imprint Academic.
  20. Ortony, A., Clore, G. L., & Collins, A. (1988). The cognitive structure of emotions. Cambridge University Press. (Reprinted 1999)
  21. Pert, C. B. (1997). Molecules of emotion: Why you feel the way you feel. Scribner.
  22. Petri, H. L., & Govern, J. M. (2013). Motivation: Theory, research, and applications (6th ed.). Thomson Wadsworth.
  23. Reeve, J. (2024). Understanding motivation and emotion (8th ed.). Wiley. Google Books. Instructor site. ISBN: Paperback 978-1-394-21904-9, E-Book 978-1-394-21901-8.
  24. Sansone, C. & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2000). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: The search for optimal motivation and performance. Academic Press.
  25. Sheldon, K. M. (Ed.) (2010). Current directions in motivation and emotion. Allyn & Bacon.
  26. Strongman, K. T. (2003). The psychology of emotion: From everyday life to theory (5th ed.). Wiley.
  27. Vail, P. L. (1994). Emotion: The on/off switch for learning. Modern Learning Press.
  28. Wagner, H. (1999). The psychobiology of human motivation. Routledge.