Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology

Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology
Author: Lawrence A. Pervin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2015-06-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317510224

Is behavior motivated? And if so, can it be motivated by the anticipation of future events? What role does cognition play in such motivational processes? And, further, what role does motivation play in ongoing cognitive activity? Questions such as these provide the foundation for this book, originally published in 1989. More specifically, the chapters in this book address the question of the utility of goals concepts in studying motivation and social cognition.

Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology

Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology
Author: Lawrence A. Pervin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2015-06-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317510216

Is behavior motivated? And if so, can it be motivated by the anticipation of future events? What role does cognition play in such motivational processes? And, further, what role does motivation play in ongoing cognitive activity? Questions such as these provide the foundation for this book, originally published in 1989. More specifically, the chapters in this book address the question of the utility of goals concepts in studying motivation and social cognition.

The Psychology of Goals

The Psychology of Goals
Author: Gordon B. Moskowitz
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2009-01-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1606230298

Bringing together leading authorities, this tightly edited volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge about goals and their key role in human behavior. Presented are cutting-edge theories and findings that shed light on the ways people select and prioritize goals; how they are pursued; factors that lead to success or failure in achieving particular aims; and consequences for individual functioning and well-being. Thorough attention is given to both conscious and nonconscious processes. The biological, cognitive, affective, and social underpinnings of goals are explored, as is their relationship to other motivational constructs.

Action and Inaction in a Social World

Action and Inaction in a Social World
Author: Dolores AlbarracĂ­n
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108879705

This book explains how actions and inactions arise and change in social contexts, including social media and face-to-face communication. Its multidisciplinary perspective covers research from psychology, communication, public health, business studies, and environmental sciences. The reader can use this cutting-edge approach to design and interpret effects of behavioral change interventions as well as replicate the materials and methods implemented to study them. The author provides an organized set of principles that take the reader from the formation of attitudes and goals, to the structure of action and inaction. It also reflects on how cognitive processes explain excesses of action while inaction persists elsewhere. This practical guide summarises the best practices persuasion and behavioral interventions to promote changes in health, consumer, and social behaviors.

Cognitive Perspectives on Emotion and Motivation

Cognitive Perspectives on Emotion and Motivation
Author: V. Hamilton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9400927924

This book presents the contributions of the members of an Advanced Research Workshop on Cogni ti ve Science Perspectives on Emotion, Motivation and Cognition. The Workshop, funded mainly by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, together with a contribution from the (British) Economic and Social Research Council, was conducted at II Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy, 21-27 June 1987. The venue for our discussions was ideal: a quiet holiday hotel, 500m high in the Apennine mountain range, approached by a mile of perilously steep, winding narrow road. The isolation was conducive to concentrated discussions on the topics of the Workshop. The reason for the Workshop was a felt need for researchers from disparate but related approaches to cognition, emotion, and motivation to communicate their perspectives and arguments to one another. To take just one example, the framework of information processing and the metaphor of mind as a computer has wrought a major revolution in psychological theories of cogni tion. That framework has radically altered the way psychologists conceptualize perception, memory, language, thought, and action. Those advances have formed the intellectual substrate for the "cognitive science" perspective on mental life.

Life Goals and Well-being

Life Goals and Well-being
Author: Kennon Marshall Sheldon
Publisher: Seattle ; Toronto : Hogrefe & Huber
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

...in this book for the first time, results are presented from researchers around the world on which goals actually help to lead to happiness and thus to physical and mental wellbeing

Personality Psychology

Personality Psychology
Author: David M. Buss
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1468406345

Research in the field of personality psychology has culminated in a radical departure. The result is Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions. Drs. Buss and Cantor have compiled the innovative research of twenty-five young, outstanding personality psychologists to represent the recent expansion of issues in the fields. Advances in assessment have brought about more powerful methods and the explanatory tools for extending personality psychology beyond its traditional reaches into the areas of cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, and sociology. This volume represents a significant landmark in the psychology of personality.

New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance

New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance
Author: Edwin A. Locke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415885485

This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume will have a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.

Self-theories

Self-theories
Author: Carol S. Dweck
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317710339

This innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows: * How these patterns originate in people's self-theories * Their consequences for the person -- for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being * Their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations * The experiences that create them This outstanding text is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, child development, and education, and is appropriate for both graduate and senior undergraduate students in these areas.