Review of Fundamentals of Human Motivation

Abstract

Reviews the book, Fundamentals of Human Motivation by L. T. Troland (1928). Is it a paradox of the problem of motivation that we should seek a mental explanation of a physical act? The author of this book thinks not, and says not most decidedly. The book is not intended to be a popular discussion but rather a scientific analysis of the motivational problem. The reader needs nothing short of a thorough course in physiological psychology, neurology, physics, higher mathematics, ethics and philosophy to enable him to digest the phraseology and scientific inferences found in the book. The lay reader, even though "educated" in the ordinary sense of the word, will still be left wondering why people behave as they do and what the author really means. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)