Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.
    

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Human instinct : how our primeval impulses shape our modern lives / Robert Winston.

Meditations on self-discipline and failure : stoic exercise for mental fitness / William Ferraiolo.

The scientific analysis of personality and motivation / R.B. Cattell and P. Kline.

Death and the afterlife / Samuel Scheffler ; with commentaries by Harry Frankfurt, Seana Shiffrin, Susan Wolf ; edited and introduced by Niko Kolodny.

Intrinsic motivation / Edward L. Deci.

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Human instinct : how our primeval impulses shape our modern lives / Robert Winston.

Meditations on self-discipline and failure : stoic exercise for mental fitness / William Ferraiolo.

The scientific analysis of personality and motivation / R.B. Cattell and P. Kline.

Death and the afterlife / Samuel Scheffler ; with commentaries by Harry Frankfurt, Seana Shiffrin, Susan Wolf ; edited and introduced by Niko Kolodny.

Intrinsic motivation / Edward L. Deci.