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It is a truism that a complete psychology of the person must involve an accounting of behavior, thought, and feeling. In more technical terms, a comprehensive psychology should describe how representational or cognitive processes interact with energy or motivational processes to produce behavior. But a balanced, integrative approach to the person seems absent from both basic research schools and applied practice fields. Academic schools tend to organize around either cognitive or motivational variables, while applied psychologists such as clinicians often blur the important distinctions between these types of variables. What promotes and inhibits theoretical integration in psychology?
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Bernstein, W.M. (1995). On Integrating Cognitive and Motivational Explanations in Psychology. In: Oosterwegel, A., Wicklund, R.A. (eds) The Self in European and North American Culture: Development and Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0331-2_12
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