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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451640103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Psychology Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-66128-3

9786613638212

0-203-86966-4

1-135-25419-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Frontiers of social psychology

Altri autori (Persone)

AartsHenk

ElliotAndrew J

Disciplina

153.8

Soggetti

Intentionalism

Goal (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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