Goal-directed behavior

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aarts, Henk (Author), Elliot, Andrew J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Psychology Press , c2012
Series:Frontiers of social psychology
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The representation and regulation of goals
  • 2. The neuroscience of goal-directed behavior
  • 3. Basic goal distinctions
  • 4. Needs and incentives as sources of goals
  • 5. Goal gradients, expectancy, and value
  • 6. From goals to action
  • 7. How feedback infl uences persistence, disengagement, and change in goal pursuit
  • 8. Conscious and unconscious processes in goal pursuit
  • 9. Goal competition, confl ict, coordination, and completion: how intergoal dynamics affect self-regulation
  • 10. Control, consciousness, and agency