ABSTRACT
MO ST PEOPLE READING THE preceding chapters will agreethat they fall far short of giving a convincing account of motivated human behaviour. Even if we argue that human actions are ultimately, like those of other species, driven by an underlying need to increase the representation of our genes in succeeding generations, this is not a satisfactory explanation for day-to -day human behaviour. Nor are most likely to be convinced that what seem to be specifically human motives are derived by simple learning principles from the biological motives that we have looked at. In preceding chapters we have seen some of the effects of learning and culture that influence our satisfaction of the basic drives. In this chapter we will look briefly at motives that have been considered to be more characteristic of humans than of other species.
