The Emotionally Agile Brain

J.D. Pincus

doi:10.5771/9781538188798

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8878-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8879-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 374
Product type: Book Titles

Preface No access Pages i - xiv
1. 1. The Current State of Applied Motivation No access
  2. Thinking and Feeling No access
  3. The Irrationals No access
  4. Commercial Break No access
  5. Losing Our Way No access
  6. Finding Our Way Again No access
  7. What Is Motivation, Really? No access
  8. Common Usage No access
  9. Motivation Defined: Toward Optimized Functioning of the Organism No access
  10. Motivation Is Built Up from Unconscious Homeostatic Processes No access
  11. Motivation and Emotion as Complex Homeostatic Processes No access
  12. Motivation and Emotion in Philosophy No access
  13. The Primacy of Emotion No access
2. 1. Pain and Pleasure as the Core Operating Principles of Motivation and Emotion No access
  2. Motivational Polarity in Action No access
  3. From Pleasure and Pain to Good and Evil No access
3. 1. The Importance of Images No access
  2. The Time Course of Motivational Consciousness No access
1. The Random Walk Approach to Collecting Motivations No access
2. 1. Instinct Theories No access
  2. Drive Theories No access
  3. Psychoanalytic Theories No access
  4. A Consideration of Lower-Order Motivational Theories No access
3. 1. Social-Cognitive Balance Theories No access
  2. Humanistic and Developmental Psychology No access
  3. Values Research No access
  4. Personality Traits as Motivational Tendencies No access
  5. Myopic Proliferation No access
4. 1. The Discovery of “Groups” (Columns) No access
  2. The Discovery of “Periods” (Rows) No access
  3. Putting It Together No access
  4. The Four Domains in Accumulated Human Wisdom No access
  5. Discovery of a Third Dimension No access
1. Alignment of Past Motivational Concepts within the Proposed Matrix No access
2. What about Values and Morals? No access
3. Just Twelve Needs? No access
4. The Value of a Unified Model of Motivation No access
5. Developmental Progression up and around the Pyramid No access
1. Safety, Authenticity, and Potential No access
1. Homeostatic Well-Being No access
2. Psychological Safety No access
3. 1. Safety and Fear No access
  2. Maslow and Safety No access
  3. The Growth of Fear No access
4. What Goes with the Need for Safety No access
5. Other perspectives on the Need for Safety No access
6. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Safety No access
7. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Safety No access
1. Erikson and Authenticity No access
2. Components of Identity No access
3. The Process of Identity Development No access
4. Self-Esteem and Authenticity No access
5. 1. Authenticity and Imposter Syndrome No access
6. What Goes with the Need for Authenticity? No access
7. Other Perspectives on Authenticity No access
8. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Authenticity No access
9. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Authenticity No access
1. Markers of Actualization in the Domain of the Self No access
2. Markers of Actualization in the Material Domain No access
3. Markers of Actualization in the Social Domain No access
4. Markers of Actualization in the Spiritual Domain No access
5. Fulfilling Potential vs. Mastery No access
6. What Goes with the Need to Fulfill Potential? No access
7. Other Perspectives on Striving to Fulfill Potential No access
8. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Potential No access
9. Identifying the Sources of Your Need to Fulfill Your Potential No access
1. Autonomy, Immersion, and Success No access
1. Piaget, Vygotsky, and Autonomy No access
2. Autonomy versus Mastery No access
3. Components of Autonomy No access
4. Autonomy and Power No access
5. Autonomy and Freedom No access
6. Autonomy, Self-Efficacy, and Locus of Control No access
7. Autonomy, Systems, and Culture No access
8. Unchecked Autonomy? No access
9. What Goes with the Need for Autonomy No access
10. Other Perspectives on the Striving for Autonomy No access
11. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Autonomy No access
12. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Autonomy No access
1. Immersion and Mindfulness No access
2. Immersion and Transcendence No access
3. Immersion and Aesthetic Pleasure No access
4. Immersion and Openness to Experience No access
5. Csikszentmihalyi and Optimal Experience No access
6. Immersion and Employee Engagement No access
7. Immersion and Occupational Personality No access
8. What Goes with the Need for Immersion? No access
9. Other Perspectives on the Need for Immersion No access
10. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Immersion No access
11. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Immersion No access
1. Cooperation and Competition No access
2. Using Success to Satisfy Other Needs No access
3. Individual and Communal Needs for Success No access
4. McClelland’s Need for Achievement No access
5. Entrepreneurship and Success No access
6. Grandiose Narcissism and the Need for Success No access
7. What Goes with the Need for Success? No access
8. Other Perspectives on the Need for Success No access
9. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Success No access
10. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Success No access
1. Inclusion, Caring, and Recognition No access
1. The Neuroscience of Inclusion No access
2. Social Deprivation No access
3. The Loneliness Epidemic No access
4. The Politics of Loneliness No access
5. Restoring Inclusion No access
6. What Goes with the Need for Inclusion? No access
7. Other Perspectives on the Need for Inclusion No access
8. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Inclusion No access
9. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Inclusion No access
1. Attachment Theory No access
2. The Ethology of Affection No access
3. The Evolution of Love No access
4. Metaphysical Connotations No access
5. The Hierarchy of Social Needs No access
6. What Goes with the Need for Caring? No access
7. Other Perspectives on the Need for Caring No access
8. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Caring No access
9. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Caring No access
1. Maslow’s Esteem Needs No access
2. Developmental Complications in the Need for Recognition No access
3. Social Recognition and Morality No access
4. Social Recognition, Helping, and Altruism No access
5. A Hierarchy of Social Recognition No access
6. Failures of the Need for Recognition No access
7. What Goes with the Need for Recognition? No access
8. Other Perspectives on the Need for Recognition No access
9. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Recognition No access
10. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Recognition No access
1. Does Spirituality Matter? No access
2. What Spirituality Does for Us No access
3. How It Works: Providing Meaning No access
4. But Is It a Need? No access
5. Consistent Patterns across the Three Spiritual Needs No access
6. The Importance of Including the Spiritual Domain No access
1. Where Does Our Need for Justice Come From? No access
2. Justice versus Ethics No access
3. Is the Need for Justice Innate? No access
4. 1. Piaget on Moral Development No access
  2. Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development No access
  3. What Drives the Need for Justice? No access
  4. The Need for Social Justice No access
5. Justice as Homeostatic No access
6. What Goes with the Need for Justice? No access
7. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Justice No access
8. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Justice No access
1. Doing the Wrong Thing No access
2. Doing the Right Thing No access
3. Moral Reasoning Is Mediated by Emotion No access
4. Even “Rational” Moral Judgments Rely on Emotion No access
5. Moral Reasoning Involves, Well, Reasoning No access
6. Moral Judgment in the Brain No access
7. What Happens When You Can’t Feel Normal Emotions? No access
8. Psychopathy No access
9. What Goes with the Need for Ethics? No access
10. Other Perspectives on the Need for Ethics No access
11. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Ethics No access
12. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Ethics No access
1. Defining Transcendence No access
2. Maslow’s Transcendence No access
3. The Components of Transcendence No access
4. The Foundations of Transcendence in Justice and Ethics No access
5. Transcendence and the Sacred No access
6. Transcendence and Purpose No access
7. Meaning, Purpose, and Suffering No access
8. 1. We can’t pursue happiness directly. How, then, should we find it? No access
9. Failures of Transcendence and the Need to Resacralize No access
10. What Goes with the Need for Transcendence? No access
11. Other Perspectives on the Need for Transcendence No access
12. Presenting Emotions Associated with the Need for Transcendence No access
13. Identifying the Sources of Your Need for Transcendence No access
Part V: Working with Motivations No access Pages 271 - 272
1. Evidence in Support of the Pyramid No access
2. Opposing Domains No access
3. Motivations in the Same Domain No access
4. Adjacencies No access
5. The Self and the Material No access
6. The Material and the Social No access
7. The Social and the Spiritual No access
8. The Self and the Spiritual No access
9. The Apex of the Pyramid No access
1. 1. Hear the Call No access
2. 2. Recognize and Name It No access
3. 3. Accept Feelings as Information No access
4. 4. Question the Helpfulness of Your Emotional Needs No access
5. 5. Enhance or Replace (Substitution and Elevation) No access
6. 6. Practice, Practice, Practice No access
7. 7. Letting Go No access
1. Why Don’t You Just Ask Them? No access
2. “Can’t Say” No access
3. “Won’t Say” No access
4. Listening to the Body No access
5. Expressive Behavior No access
6. EEG and Brain Imaging No access
7. What Else Might Neuroscience Offer? No access
8. 1. Image Validation No access
  2. The Test in Practice No access
  3. Scoring Emotional Needs No access
  4. Does It Work? No access
  5. Does It Work Better Than Just Asking? No access
  6. A Window into Higher-Order Emotional Needs? No access
Coda No access Pages 309 - 310
Can Evolution Bring Higher Levels of Motivation? No access Pages 311 - 318
1. A Final Observation on the Twelve No access
1. What are the unwritten rules of a happy life? No access
1. Chapter 1 No access
2. Chapter 2 No access
3. Chapter 3 No access
4. Chapter 4 No access
5. Chapter 5 No access
6. Chapter 6 No access
7. Part 2 No access
8. Chapter 7 No access
9. Chapter 8 No access
10. Chapter 9 No access
11. Part 3 No access
12. Chapter 10 No access
13. Chapter 11 No access
14. Chapter 12 No access
15. Part 4 No access
16. Chapter 13 No access
17. Chapter 14 No access
18. Chapter 15 No access
19. Chapter 16 No access
20. Chapter 17 No access
21. Chapter 18 No access
22. Coda No access
23. Appendix A No access
24. Appendix B No access
Bibliography No access Pages 341 - 362
Index No access Pages 363 - 372
About the Author No access Pages 373 - 374