Download or read book Handbook of Motivation and Cognition written by Richard M. Sorrentino and published by John Wiley. This book was released on 1986 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apparent success of cognitive principles in accounting for several behaviors has led social psychologists to question the need for motivations and other hot dispositional constructs. In their place, they postulate nonmotivational cold cognitions. Behavioral variations between individuals are thus reduced to differences in information processing abilities, while biases and other apparently motivated behaviors are explained on the faulty computer model. However, as many cognitive psychologists now acknowledge this mechanistic theory fails to tie the processing of information to the performance of actions.