Motivation and emotion/Book/2011/Improve your life

Introduction


This book offers a guide for human beings in how to live happier, healthier lives, based on insights from psychological science about motivation and emotion. The book does not suggest a grand theory, but rather addresses specific problems and opportunities that exist in the human condition and how they could be approached using knowledge of psychological theory and research.

This is a free, open, online, crowd-sourced book, largely authored by participants in a 3rd year university psychology unit, Motivation and Emotion, 2011. The book is openly licensed and openly editable, using the Wikimedia Foundation platform, as a contribution to, and example of, the foundation's mission of empowering and engaging "people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally".

More information about the development of this book can be found here.

Applying insights from psychological science

 * 1) Quote from p. 42 of Reeve "If what you have is a way to help people address the significant questions in their lives, then there are 'Help Wanted' signs all over the place."
 * 2) Wilber quote
 * 3) Sum of all human knowledge

History of motivation and emotion

 * 1) Overview the history of motivation and emotion

Overview of chapters and topics

 * 1) Summarise one key, take-home insight from each chapter
 * 2) It could be nice to have a visual thumbnail for each chapter shown in the table of contents or this page.
 * 3) See also pearls of wisdom