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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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1998]
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| 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.