Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; 1 Motivation and its Control: Introduction and Overview; PART I Introduction and Basic Issues; 2 Beyond Pleasure and Pain: Value From Engagement; 3 The Evolutionary Unconscious: From 'Selfish Genes' to 'Selfish Goals'; 4 Dual Process Models and Serotonergic Functioning: Impulse and Self-control; 5 Imagination and Behavioral Control; 6 The Ego Fixation Hypothesis: Involuntary Persistence of Self-control; PART II Affective Mechanisms and Affect Control. 7 No Pain, No Gain: How Distress Underlies Effective Self-control (and Unites Diverse Social Psychological Phenomena)8 The Relationship between Individual Differences in Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation: A Comprehensive Review; 9 The Regulation of Vision: How Motivation and Emotion Shape What We See; 10 On the Regulatory Functions of Mood: Affective Influences on Memory, Judgments and Behavior; 11 Psychological and Biological Mechanisms Underlying Control over Anger and Aggression; PART III Approach and Avoidance Processes in Social Motivation. 12 The Embodiment of Approach Motivation13 Avoidance Motivation is Resource Depleting; 14 When Saying Yes to the Doughnut Is Not Saying No to Self-control: A Hierarchical Approach to Flexibility in Conflict Representation; 15 Motivated Distance Perception Serves Action Regulation; PART IV Interpersonal, Social and Cultural Implications; 16 Sex, Love, Temptation: Human Mating Motives and their Regulation; 17 The Natural Order of Things: The Motivated Underpinnings of Naturalistic Explanations for Inequality; 18 Cultural Neuroscience of Choice Justification. 19 Scaring the Bejesus into People: The Role of Religious Belief in Managing Implicit and Explicit Anxiety20 'It is Better to Give than to Receive': The Role of Motivation and Self-control in Determining the Consequences of Ostracism for Targets and Sources; Index.