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Handbook of motivation and cognition volume 2 foundations of social behavior 1st edition by e tory higgins editor richard m sorrentino editor isbn 13 978 0898624328. Handbook of motivation and cognition volume 2 foundations of social behavior by e tory higgins phd richard m sorrentino phd hardcover excellent condition. This comprehensive handbook attempts an integration of contrasting approaches to behavior discusses the dual contributions of cognition and motivation to affective states the development and evaluation of the self and the setting and attainment of goals. The third volume of the handbook of motivation and cognition like its acclaimed predecessors presents timely original work on the interface of motivation and cognition rather than looking at the self affect and goals as primarily intrapersonal variables however volume 3 shifts its concern to the role of motivation and cognition in interpersonal and intergroup behavior. Volume 2 continues to emphasize both theory and research on the motivation cognition interface however the range of approaches has been widened to include clinical developmental political and cognitive psychological as well as the social and personality perspectives prominent in the first volume