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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Psychology Press ,
c2012
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| 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