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Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Four is the latest in Elsevier's brand new serial on the topic of motivation science. For this release, users will find comprehensive chapters on a variety of topics, including Self-regulatory functions supporting motivated action, Motivating personality: Approach, avoidance, and their conflict, Incentives and pay for performance in the workplace, Culture and motivation: A socio-ecological approach, The evolving understanding of physical activity behavior: A multi-process action control approach, and a chapter on Motivated emotion regulation: Principles, lessons, and implications of a motivational analysis of emotion regulation. The advent of the cognitive revolution in the 1960 and 70s eclipsed the emphasis on motivation to a large extent, but in the past two decades motivation has returned en force. Today, motivational analyses of affect, cognition, and behavior are ubiquitous across psychological literatures and disciplines. This series brings together internationally recognized experts who focus on cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions in this important area of psychology. Content: CopyrightPage iv List of ContributorsPage vii Chapter One - Self-Regulatory Functions Supporting Motivated ActionOriginal Research ArticlePages 1-37Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier Chapter Two - Motivating Personality: Approach, Avoidance, and Their ConflictOriginal Research ArticlePages 39-90Philip J. Corr, Dino Krupić Chapter Three - Incentives and Pay for Performance in the WorkplaceOriginal Research ArticlePages 91-140Barry Gerhart Chapter Four - Culture and Motivation: A Socio-Ecological ApproachOriginal Research ArticlePages 141-170Shigehiro Oishi, Hyewon Choi Chapter Five - The Evolving Understanding of Physical Activity Behavior: A Multi-Process Action Control ApproachaOriginal Research ArticlePages 171-205Ryan E. Rhodes Chapter Six - Motivated Emotion Regulation: Principles, Lessons, and Implications of a Motivational Analysis of Emotion RegulationOriginal Research ArticlePages 207-247Maya Tamir, Yael Millgram