Advances in Motivation Science

Andrew J. Elliot is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. His research areas include achievement motivation, approach-avoidance motivation, the development of motivation and self-regulation, and subtle cue and context effects on psychological functioning. He has been (or currently is) an Associate Editor at Emotion, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Science, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and has edited two handbooks: Handbook of competence and motivation (with Carol Dweck) and Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. He has over 170 scholarly publications, has received research grants from public and private agencies, and has been awarded multiple awards for his research contributions.

1. The Psychology of Respect: A Case Study of How Behavioral Norms Regulate Human Action David Dunning, Detlef Fetchenhauer and Thomas Schlösser

2. Motivation in a Social Context: Coordinating Personal and Shared Goal Pursuits with Others Ayelet Fishbach, Janina Steinmetz and Yanping Tu

3. Embodying Approach Motivation: A Review of Recent Evidence Tom F. Price and Eddie Harmon-Jones

4. Evolved Social Motives: When Knowing about the Past Provides a Window onto the Present Jon K. Maner

5. Three Decades of Research on Motivational Intensity Theory: What we have learned about effort and what we still don't know Michael Richter, Guido H. E. Gendolla and Rex A. Wright

6. Motivation Explained: Ultimate and Proximate Accounts of Hunger and Appetite Edmund T. Rolls