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  2. Eustace Chesser - Wikipedia

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    In 1940 he published a sex manual entitled Love Without Fear. [1] It sold 5,000 copies but it was withdrawn, and Chesser was arrested for obscenity. [1] [3] Rather than pleading guilty and accepting a fine, Chesser chose to be tried by jury. [4] Chesser, who pleaded not guilty, was later acquitted.

  3. Book of a Thousand Days - Wikipedia

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    When Dashti, posing as Lady Saren, talks to him at the tower, they joke and laugh. They create a friendship that eventually turns into a romantic love. When things take a bad turn at the end, Khan Tegus finds every way possible to marry Dashti, and after he and Saren convince the chiefs Dashti is innocent, friendship and love win in the end.

  4. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

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    The book was published in 2009 by Riverhead Hardcover. It argues that human motivation is largely intrinsic and that the aspects of this motivation can be divided into autonomy, mastery, and purpose. [1] He argues against old models of motivation driven by rewards and fear of punishment, dominated by extrinsic factors such as money. [2] [3]

  5. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    Survival, threat detection, decision-making, and motivation. One view is that emotions facilitate adaptive responses to environmental challenges . Emotions like fear, anger, and disgust are thought to have evolved to help humans and other animals detect and respond to threats and dangers in their environment.

  6. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    Motivation affects students' participation in classroom activities and academic success. Motivation plays a key role in education since it affects the students' engagement with the studied topic and shapes their learning experience and academic success. Motivated students are more likely to participate in classroom activities and persevere ...

  7. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    William James in 1890 proposed four basic emotions: fear, grief, love, and rage, based on bodily involvement. [35] Paul Ekman identified six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. [36] Wallace V. Friesen and Phoebe C. Ellsworth worked with him on the same basic structure. [37] The emotions can be linked to facial ...

  8. The Scout Mindset - Wikipedia

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    The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't is a 2021 non-fiction book by Julia Galef. In the book, Galef argues for what she calls a scout mindset: "the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were". [ 3 ]

  9. Jean Hager - Wikipedia

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    Jean Hager (born June 2, 1932) is an American writer of mystery fiction, children's fiction, and romance novels.She has published romance novels under the pseudonyms Jeanne Stephens, Leah Crane, Marlaine Kyle, Amanda McAllister, and Sara North, as well as in her own name. [2]