Researchers in achievement motivation are becoming all the more aware of the importance of affect in motivation and self-regulation. This leads to extension and integration of existing theories as well as to new theories that provide a good account of existing data and offer new insight into the mechanism underlying the functioning of motivation. This book presents up-to-date basic research in motivation and self-regulation and an overview of the field, with particular emphasis on issues such as change of motivation, effects of context and culture on motivation, relations of cognition and...

The 10th Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology was held in 2002 on the topic of culture and social behavior. This book consists of the expanded and updated versions of papers presented initially at the conference. Though much of the research discusses East-West cultural differences and similarities, contributors also focus on how the East-West research can help in cross-cultural studies more generally. processes to broad level cultural syndromes that pervade social arrangements, laws, and public representations. Pioneers in the field of cross-cultural psychology present their...

Presents 15 years of research devoted to understanding the dynamics of uncertainty orientation. The book should be of interest for those directly involved in the fields of social motivation and social cognition, but also for a broad range of people across the field of psychology.