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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778385803321

Autore

Klinger Eric <1933->

Titolo

Meaning & void : inner experience and the incentives in people's lives / / Eric Klinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1977

©1977

ISBN

0-8166-8158-9

0-8166-0856-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 pages)

Disciplina

153.8

155.2

Soggetti

Meaning (Psychology)

Incentive (Psychology)

Alienation (Social psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1. MEANING, GOALS, AND ACTION; 2. INCENTIVES AND THOUGHTS; 3. INCENTIVES AND EMOTIONS; 4. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF VALUE; 5. CONSEQUENCES OF LOSING; 6. ALIENATION, FUTILITY, DISCONTENT; 7. TAMPERING WITH THE MESSAGE SYSTEM; 8. SELF-ANNIHILATION; 9. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEXES

Sommario/riassunto

In a wide-ranging theory of the way people function, the author shows how their inner lives depend upon and in turn influence their commitments to goals or incentives.