Motivation and emotion/Book

Motivation and emotion (Book):
Understanding and improving our motivational and emotional lives using psychological science

Overview[edit]

This is an evolving, open source, collaboratively authored collection of hundreds of chapters about motivation and emotion topics.

The theme is - how can we improve our motivational and emotional lives based on psychological science (theory and research)?

Each chapter is accompanied by 3 to 5 minute multimedia overviews.

This collection of work has been developed through the Motivation and emotion unit at the University of Canberra (2010 - present).

To find Book Chapters on specific topics, try searching:

Book Chapters can be accessed by year (click on the relevant year in Table 1).

Table 1. Number of chapters by year and motivation and emotion categories.

Year	Motivation	Emotion	Total
2018	TBA	TBA	TBA
2017	39	63	102
2016	64	55	119
2015	69	72	141
2014	70	63	133
2013	49	75	124
2011	44	46	90
2010	42	23	65
Total	379	397	783

The Book Chapters are also organised by categories - see the expandable list below: