This book presents ground-breaking research by leading international researchers on the nature, functions and characteristics of social motivation. Its contributors focus on a variety of issues, such as the functions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and the subtle roles that habits and goals play in producing and maintaining motivated social behaviors. Recent discoveries in the psychology of motivation relevant to everyday social behaviors and clinical, organizational, educational and counseling practices receive particular attention.

Pride, lust, gluttony, greed, envy, sloth, and anger.
They're considered -deadly- because of their capacity to generate other evils. The truth is, we all sin and we do it all the time--in fact, usually several times over before breakfast But human behavior, argues social psychologist Simon Laham, is more complex than -good- or -evil.- In psychology, these sins aren't considered morally wrong or even uniformly bad, but are treated rather as complex and interesting psychological states that if, indulged wisely, can be functional, adaptive, and lead to a range of positive effects.
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