Personal control in action : cognitive and motivational mechanisms /

This new study presents exciting international research developments on personal control and self-regulation. Each chapter examines the subject at a different level of analysis to foster a complete understanding. Brief synopses of each chapter are provided as introductions to the three major section...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kofta, Mirosław, Weary, Gifford, 1951-, Sedek, Grzegorz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1998]
Series:Plenum series in social/clinical psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Personal control from the perspective of cognitive-experiential self-theory / Seymour Epstein
  • Dynamics in the coordination of mind and action / Robin R. Vallacher, Andrzej Nowak, Jessica Markus, and Jennifer Strauss
  • Opening versus closing strategies in controlling one's responses to experience / Michael Rosenbaum
  • A terror management perspective on the psychology of control : controlling the uncontrollable / Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon
  • Personal goals and personal agency : linking everyday goals to future images of the self / Laura A. King
  • The emotional control of behavior / Jack W. Brehm and Beverly H. Brummett
  • Mood management : the role of processing strategies in affect control and affect infusion / Joseph P. Forgas, Robert Johnson, and Joseph Ciarrochi
  • Ability perception and cardiovascular response to behavioral challenge / Rex A. Wright
  • Confirmation bias : cognitive error or adaptive strategy of action control? / Maria Lewicka
  • Intrusive thoughts, rumination, and incomplete intentions / Jürgen Beckmann
  • Decision making and action : the search for a dominance structure / Henry Montgomery
  • Improving efficiency of action control through technical and social resources / Wolfgang Schönpflug
  • To control or not to control / Dariusz Dolinski
  • Interpersonal power repair in response to threats to control from dependent others / Daphne Blunt Bugental and Jeffrey Clayton Lewis
  • Control motivation, depression, and counterfactual thought / Keith D. Markman and Gifford Weary
  • Uncontrollability as a source of cognitive exhaustion : implications for helplessness and depression / Miroslaw Kofta and Grzegorz Sedek
  • Intellectual helplessness : domain specificity, teaching styles, and school achievement / Grzegorz Sedek and Daniel N. McIntosh.