Chapter 12 – Motivation and Emotion
Web Resources
Official Abraham Maslow Publications Site
http://www.gjs.net/web-masl.htm
A detailed account of Abraham Maslow’s publications is available on this site. Also available are other researchers’ supportive findings for aspects of his theories of psychology and motivation.
Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/research/EI.html
This page is an on-line bibliography in the area of emotions and emotional intelligence, describing current research findings and notes of interest.
Center for Eating Disorders
http://www.eating-disorders.com
From the Center for Eating Disorders web site, information is available on the wide array of eating disorders. Available here is information on research, treatment, and descriptions of each condition, such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder.
Evolutionary Psychology and Emotions
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/emotion.html
"Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the psychological sciences in which principles and results drawn from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and neuroscience are integrated with the rest of psychology in order to map human nature. By human nature, evolutionary psychologists mean the evolved, reliably developing, species-typical computational and neural architecture of the human mind and brain. According to this view, the functional components that comprise this architecture were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and to regulate behavior so that these adaptive problems were successfully addressed (for discussion, see Cosmides & Tooby, 1987, Tooby & Cosmides, 1992).
Center for Eating Disorders
http://www.eating-disorders.com
From the Center for Eating Disorders Web site, information is available on the wide array of eating disorders. Available here is information on research, treatment, and descriptions of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder.
Evolutionary Psychology and Emotions
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/emotion.html
From the Web site: "Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the psychological sciences in which principles and results drawn from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and neuroscience are integrated with the rest of psychology in order to map human nature. By human nature, evolutionary psychologists mean the evolved, reliably developing, species-typical computational and neural architecture of the human mind and brain. According to this view, the functional components that comprise this architecture were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and to regulate behavior so that these adaptive problems were successfully addressed (for discussion, see Cosmides & Tooby, 1987, Tooby & Cosmides, 1992).”
Mind Tools: Sports Psychology
http://www.psychwww.com/mtsite/page11.html
From the Introduction to Sports Psychology by James Manktelow: “Your body is a mass of muscles and nerves linked together into the central processing unit that is your brain. This series of articles on sports psychology seeks to show you how to use that central processing unit to its greatest effect in controlling your body to give optimum sporting performance.”
Internet Mental Health: Anorexia Nervosa
http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-et01.html
This page has information on the description, diagnosis, and treatment of anorexia nervosa.
US Surgeon General: Eating Disorders
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter3/sec6.html#eating
From the Web site: “Eating disorders are serious, sometimes life-threatening, conditions that tend to be chronic (Herzog et al., 1999). They usually arise in adolescence and disproportionately affect females. About 3 percent of young women have one of the three main eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating disorder (Becker et al., 1999).”
Promising Treatments in Eating Disorders
http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar02/eatingtoc.html
APA Monitor on Psychology links. Learn about the new data on treatments for binge-eating, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
HealthEmotions
http://www.healthemotions.org/
From the Web site: “The HealthEmotions Research Institute seeks to use state-of-the-art scientific methods developed for the study of illness to study the relationship between positive emotions and health. Understanding how positive states of mind influence the body is part of the next great frontier in brain research. The results will have profound consequences for our understanding of the biology of positive emotion, our concept of health, the prevention of disease and the promotion of resilience.”
APA: Realistic Weight Loss
http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/realistic.html
From the Web site: “Losing just a few pounds significantly reduces risks to your health – and you can do it by making small lifestyle changes.”