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Advances in Motivation Science.

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This book explores various aspects of human motivation, decision-making, and self-understanding through interdisciplinary research. It addresses topics such as pragmatic prospection, which focuses on how people plan for future actions more than past reflections, with implications for goal attainment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elliot, Andrew J.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Andrew J. Elliot
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chantilly : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Issn Series.
Subjects:
Motivation (Psychology)
Decision making.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover image
  • Title page
  • Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Contributors
  • Chapter One: Pragmatic prospection: Theory, research, and practice
  • Abstract
  • 1 The surprising disappearance of optimism
  • 2 Instead, the results were significant in the opposite direction: Thinking about the future made participants shift toward favoring the low-risk investment
  • 3 Two steps in prospection
  • 4 Evidence for two steps
  • 5 Everyday thoughts
  • 6 Planning: Quintessentially pragmatic prospection
  • 7 Simple plans improve future outcomes
  • 8 Moralizing the future
  • 9 Anticipating emotion
  • 10 Dealing with innovator's bias
  • 11 When people fail to value future goals
  • 12 Measuring pragmatic prospection
  • 13 Correlates of trait pragmatic prospection
  • 14 Discussion
  • 15 Main points of theory
  • 16 Implications for practice
  • 17 Directions for future research
  • 18 Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Chapter Two: The quest for self-knowledge: What do we want to know (and not know) about ourselves
  • Abstract
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Conclusion