Given that husbands and wives had distinct motives for avoiding rearing many children and that the discussion of reproduction was shrouded in silence, the dissemination and use of new ideals of family was crucial in enabling birth control to be thought about respectably within marriage.
Most experts agree on the motives for lying: avoid punishment, win admiration, avoid embarrassment, exert power.
The expectancy-value model of achievement motivation proposes that the overall tendency to achieve in a particular situation depends upon two stable motives a motive for success and a motive to avoid failure and the subjective evaluation of the probability of success in the situation.
Nhu's motive was to avoid responsibility for a violent operation — which would anger the Vietnamese public and the American leadership.
Therefore, he also has a motive to avoid the dance to escape humiliation.
Rudolph said Carruth had no financial motive to avoid child support.
Eighteen approach-driven participants and 18 avoidance-driven participants were selected based on their motive to achieve success scores and their motive to avoid failure scores.
If a perfectly good deity would have the motive to overcome discord and wickedness, it would also have a motive to avoid triviality and boredom.
Collins admitted that he has an ulterior motive for wanting Bowles to avoid any wrecks on the track, since the car will be emblazoned with Random Acts' logo and web address.
In this case, the motive for Japanese investment is to avoid higher labors costs at home.
