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Tables of Contents for The Psychology of Action
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part I. Sources and Contents of Action Goals
1
114
All Goals Are Not Created Equal: An Organismic Perspective on the Nature of Goals and Their Regulation
7
20
Richard M. Ryan
Kennon M. Sheldon
Tim Kasser
Edward L. Deci
Self-Regulation and Ego Threat: Motivated Cognition, Self Deception, and Destructive Goal Setting
27
21
Roy F. Baumeister
On the Substitutability of Self-Protective Mechanisms
48
21
Abraham Tesser
Leonard L. Martin
David P. Cornell
Implicit Theories as Organizers of Goals and Behavior
69
22
Carol S. Dweck
Ideals, Oughts, and Regulatory Focus: Affect and Motivation from Distinct Pains and Pleasures
91
24
E. Tory Higgins
Part II. Affective Influences on Action Goals
115
246
Feelings and Their Motivational Implications: Moods and the Action Sequence
119
27
Norbert Schwarz
Gerd Bohner
Depression, Control Motivation, and Person Perception
146
22
Gifford Weary
Katherine Gannon
Emotional Influences on Cognitive Processing, with Implications for Theories of Both
168
29
Eric Klinger
Part III. Preparing to Act
Mental Construction of the Goal
193
4
From Good Intentions to Willpower
197
22
Walter Mischel
Mental Stimulation, Motivation, and Action
219
17
Shelley E. Taylor
Lien B. Pham
Positive Fantasy and Motivation
236
24
Gabriele Oettingen
Dynamics of Action Identification: Volatility and Structure in the Mental Representation of Behavior
260
27
Robin R. Vallacher
James Kaufman
Planning and Coordinating Action
283
4
The Volitional Benefits of Planning
287
26
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Striving and Feeling: Personal Goals and Subjective Well-Being
313
25
Robert A. Emmons
Effortful Pursuit of Personal Goals in Daily Life
338
23
Nancy Cantor
Hart Blanton
Part IV. Effortful Control of Action
361
94
Volitional Choices in the Goal Achievement Process
365
20
Edwin A. Locke
Amy L. Kristof
The Directive Influence of Attitudes on Behavior
385
19
Icek Ajzen
Self-Regulatory and Other Non-Ability Determinants of Skill Acquisition
404
20
Ruth Kanfer
Brehm's Theory of Motivation as a Model of Effort and Cardiovascular Response
424
31
Rex A. Wright
Part V. Nonconscious Control of Action
455
52
Automaticity in Action: The Unconscious as Repository of Chronic Goals and Motives
457
25
John A. Bargh
Kimberly Barndollar
The Feeling of Doing
482
25
Matthew E. Ansfield
Daniel M. Wegner
Part VI. Goals Influences on Social Interaction
507
90
Person Perception under Pressure: When Motivation Brings About Egocentrism
511
18
Robert A. Wicklund
Gisela Steins
Expectancy Influences in Social Interaction: The Moderating Role of Social Goals
529
24
Steven L. Neuberg
Beyond Accuracy: Defense and Impression Motives in Heuristic and Systematic Information Processing
553
26
Shelly Chaiken
Roger Giner-Sorolla
Serena Chen
Awareness of Influence as a Precondition for Implementing Correctional Goals
579
18
Fritz Strack
Bettina Hannover
Part VII. Discussions
597
76
Goals as Knowledge Structures
599
20
Arie W. Kruglanski
The Role of Conscious Thought in a Theory of Motivation and Cognition: The Uncertainty Orientation Paradigm
619
26
Richard M. Sorrentino
Some Ways in Which Goals Differ and Some Implications of Those Differences
645
28
Charles S. Carver
Index
673