Motivation of Behavior:

AbstractTHIS is a very interesting and sound psychological account of the mainsprings of conduct under the caption of the motivation of behaviour. The work is well developed and well balanced, the evidence clearly put and the argument logically advanced. The author gives his own position by stating that the mind and the brain are one and the same reality, and that motivation is a process of arousing movement by physical energy transformations which are concurrent with behaviour.Motivation of Behavior: the Fundamental Determinants of Human and Animal Activity. By Prof. P. T. Young. Pp. xviii + 562. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1936.) 20s. net.