Emotion and Motivation focuses on those areas of Psychology which deal with the transient mental feelings we call emotions and the psychological processes that initiate, energise and direct behaviour known as motivation. It covers topics such as: the definition of emotion and its main components; research into the theory of emotion; emotion and cognition; hunger and appetite; social motivation and social facilitation; sexual motivation, behaviour and its function; major theories of stress and the psychological effects of the three main stress-inducing type of experience.