Goal-directed behavior / edited by Henk Aarts and Andrew J. Elliot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aarts, Henk.

Elliot, Andrew J.

Series:

Frontiers of social psychology.

Frontiers of social psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intentionalism.

Goal (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Psychology Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 an introduction to past research on a specific topic and combine this with a presentation of their own empirical work to provide an integrated overview of the topic at hand. As a whole, this volume is designed to provide a broad portrait of goal research as it has been and is currently being condu

Contents:

Cover; Goal-Directed Behavior; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; 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 Influences Persistence, Disengagement, and Change in Goal Pursuit; 8 Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Goal Pursuit; 9 Goal Competition, Conflict, Coordination, and Completion: How Intergoal Dynamics Affect Self-Regulation; 10 Control, Consciousness, and Agency

Author IndexSubject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613638212

9781135254186

1135254184

9781280661280

1280661283

9780203869666

0203869664

9781135254193

1135254192

OCLC:

798533143