{"product_id":"9781461383116","title":"Control Motivation and Social Cognition","description":"\u003ch1\u003eControl Motivation and Social Cognition\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWeary, Gifford; Gleicher, Faith; Marsh, Kerry L.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver the past two decades theorists and researchers have given increasing attention to the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of various control­ related motivations and beliefs. People's notions of how much personal control they have or desire to have over important events in their lives have been used to explain a host of performance and adaptational outcomes, including motivational and performance deficits associated with learned helplessness (Abramson, Seligman, \u0026amp; Teasdale, 1978) and depression (Abramson, Metalsky, \u0026amp; Alloy, 1989), adaptation to aging (Baltes \u0026amp; Baltes, 1986; Rodin, 1986), cardiovascular disease (Matthews, 1982), cancer (Sklar \u0026amp; Anisman, 1979), increased reports of physical symptoms (Pennebaker, 1982), enhanced learning (Savage, Perlmutter, \u0026amp; Monty, 1979), achievement-related behaviors (Dweck \u0026amp; Licht, 1980; Ryckman, 1979), and post abortion adjustment (Mueller \u0026amp; Major, 1989). The notion that control motivation plays a fundamental role in a variety of basic, social psychological processes also has a long historical tradition. A number of theorists (Heider, 1958; Jones \u0026amp; Davis, 1965; Kelley, 1967), for example, have suggested that causal inferences arise from a desire to render the social world predictable and controllable. Similarly, control has been implicated as an important mediator of cognitive dissonance (Wicklund \u0026amp; Brehm, 1976) and attitude phenomena (Brehm \u0026amp; Brehm, 1981; Kiesler, Collins, \u0026amp; Miller, 1969). Despite the apparent centrality of control motivation to a variety of social psychological phenomena, until recently there has been relatively little research explicitly concerned with the effects of control motivation on the cognitive processes underlying such phenomena (cf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-01-24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781461383116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4613-8309-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 344\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44398807580812,"sku":"9781461383116","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781461383116.jpg?v=1775795040","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781461383116","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}