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.
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
