Emotions and Motivation is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that focus on the study of motivation and emotion from a social psychological approach.

• Collects readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that focus on the study of motivation and emotion from a social psychological approach.
• Provides a representative sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup.
• Organized around two broad themes; affect and emotions; and social motivation.
• Includes introductions by two world-renowned researchers.