The Psychology of Action
Linking Cognition and Motivation to Behavior
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How are social behaviors initiated, sustained, disrupted, and resumed? What are the cognitive bases of goals, and how are goals and actions affected by emotions? Putting an end to the traditional, and unproductive, juxtaposition of motivation and cognition, this book relates these domains to shed new light on the control of goal-directed action. Bringing together renowned social and motivational psychologists, it presents concise formulations of complete research programs that effectively map the territory, provide new findings, and suggest innovative ideas for future research.
Table of Contents
I. SOURCES AND CONTENTS OF ACTION GOALS
1. All Goals Are Not Created Equal: An Organismic Perspective on the Nature of Goals and Their Regulation, Richard M. Ryan, Kennon M. Sheldon, Tim Kasser, and Edward L. Deci
2. Self-Regulation and Ego Threat: Motivated Cognition, Self-Deception, and Destructive Goal Setting, Roy F. Baumeister
3. On the Substitutability of Self-Protective Mechanisms, Abraham Tesser, Leonard L. Martin, and David P. Cornell
4. Implicit Theories as Organizers of Goals and Behavior, Carol S. Dweck
5. Ideals, Oughts, and Regulatory Outcome Focus: Relating Affect and Motivation to Distinct Pains and Pleasures, E. Tory Higgins
II. AFFECTIVE INFLUENCES ON ACTION GOALS
6. Feelings and Their Motivational Implications: Moods and the Action Sequence, Norbert Schwarz and Gerd Bohner
7. Depression, Control Motivation, and Person Perception, Gifford Weary and Katherine Gannon
8. Emotional Influences on Cognitive Processing, with Implications for Theories of Both, Eric Klinger
III. PREPARING TO ACT
A. Mental Construction of the Goal
9. From Good Intentions to Willpower, Walter Mischel
10. Mental Stimulation, Motivation, and Action, Shelley E. Taylor and Lien B. Pham
11. Positive Fantasy and Motivation, Gabrielle Oettingen
12. Time in Action: Dynamics and the Mental Control of Behavior, Robin R. Vallacher and J. Kaufman
B: Planning and Coordinating Action
13. The Volitional Benefits of Planning, Peter M. Gollwitzer
14. Striving and Feeling: Personal Goals and Subjective Well-Being, Robert A. Emmons
15. Effortful Pursuit of Personal Goals in Daily Life, Nancy Cantor and Hart Blanton
IV. EFFORTFUL CONTROL OF ACTION
16. Volitional Choices in the Goal Achievement Process, Edwin A. Locke and Amy Kristof
17. The Directive Influence of Attitudes on Behavior, Icek Ajzen
18. Self-Regulatory and Other Non-Ability-Related Determinants of Skill Acquisition, Ruth Kanfer
19. Brehm's Theory of Motivation as a Model of Effort and Cardiovascular Response, Rex A. Wright
V. NONCONSCIOUS CONTROL OF ACTION
20. Automaticity in Action: The Unconscious as Repository of Chronic Goals and Motives, John A. Bargh and Kimberly Barndollar
21. The Feeling of Doing, Matthew E. Ansfield and Daniel M. Wegner
VI. GOAL INFLUENCES ON SOCIAL INTERACTION
22. Person Perception under Pressure: When Motivation Brings About Egocentrism, Robert A. Wicklund and Gisela Steins
23. Expectancy Influences in Social Interaction: The Moderating Role of Social Goals, Steven L. Neuberg
24. Beyond Accuracy: Defense and Impression Motives in Heuristic and Systematic Information Processing, Shelly Chaiken, Roger Giner-Sorolla, and Serena Chen
25. Awareness of Influence as a Precondition for Implementing Correctional Goals, Fritz Strack and Bettina Hannover
VII. DISCUSSIONS
26. Goals as Knowledge Structures, Arie W. Kruglanski
27. The Role of Conscious Thought in a Theory of Motivation and Cognition: The Uncertainty Orientation Paradigm, Richard M. Sorrentino
28. Some Ways in Which Goals Differ and Some Implications of Those Differences, Charles S. Carver
Reviews
This book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in human motivation.
- Lawrence A. Pervin, PhD
The aspiration of the editors implied in the title of this important volume...is as admirable as it is risky....The editors are to be congratulated for taking the risk and achieving a most promising breakthrough in the search for a conceptual union between cognition and action.
- Robert B. Zajonc, PhD
This book is a must read for...academics teaching courses such as motivation and emotion, the psychology of motivation, or cognitive psychology where the topic of affect is addressed to some degree. If you want to get the latest theorizing for your students or your own personal research, I recommend that you get your hands on this volume.
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