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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Aarts, Henk (-), Elliot, Andrew J.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Psychology Press c2012.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Frontiers of social psychology.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798041206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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