Expectations and Actions: Expectancy-Value Models in Psychology (Psychology Revivals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367714396 ISBN 13: 9780367714390

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology. The focus is upon cognitive models that relate action to the perceived attractiveness or aversiveness of expected consequences. A person’s behavior is seen to bear some relation to the expectations the person holds and the subjective value of the consequences that might occur following the action. Despite widespread interest in the expectancy-value (valence) approach at the time, there was no book that looked at its current status and discussed its strengths and its weaknesses, using contributions from some of the theorists who were involved in its original and subsequent development and from others who were influenced by it or had cause to examine the approach closely. This book was planned to meet this need.

The chapters in this book relate to such areas as achievement motivation, attribution theory, information feedback, organizational psychology, the psychology of values and attitudes, and decision theory and in some cases they advance the expectancy-value approach further and, in other cases, point to some of its deficiencies.

About this title

About the Author

Norman T. Feather, Emeritus Professor, Flinders University, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367714396
• ISBN 13: 9780367714390
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Feather Norman T.