1st Edition

Goal-Directed Behavior

Edited By Henk Aarts, Andrew Elliot Copyright 2012
356 Pages 3 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

356 Pages 3 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

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... Read more

G. Moskowitz, The Representation and Regulation of Goals. A.B. Satpute, D. Badre, K.N. Ochsner, The Neuroscience of Goal-directed Behavior. K. Fujita, K.E. MacGregor, Basic Goal Distinctions. P.M. Gollwitzer, H. Barry, G. Oettingen, Needs and Incentives As Sources of Goals. N. Liberman, J. Förster, Goal Gradients, Expectancy, and Value. P. Sheeran, T.L. Webb, From Goals to Action. A. Fishbach, S.R. Finkelstein, How Feedback Influences Persistence, Disengagement, and Change in Goal Pursuit. R. Custers, B. Eitam, J.A. Bargh, Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Goal Pursuit. J.V. Cavallo, G.M. Fitzsimons, Intergoal Dynamics and Self-regulation: Goal Competition, Conflict, Coordination, and Completion. A. Dijksterhuis, H. Aarts, Control, Consciousness, and Agency.

Biography

Henk Aarts, Andrew Elliot