Perspectives on behavioral self-regulation
By: edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr. ; lead article by Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier.
Contributors: Wyer, Robert S.; Carver, Charles S.; Scheier, Michael.
Series: Advances in social cognition -- v.12.; Advances in social cognition -- 12.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Self Stimulation; Behavior; Internal-External Control; Social Perception; Human behavior; Control (Psychology); Feedback (Psychology); Self-control
Description: Presents and evaluates new theoretical advances in all areas of social cognition and information processing. This volume is devoted to each theory, allowing the theory to be evaluated from a veriety of perspectives and permitting its implications for a wide range of issues to be examined.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Themes and issues in the self-regulation of behavior / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier; title: Emerging goals and the self-regulation of behavior / Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura; title: Affect, goals, and the self-regulation of behavior / Joseph P. Forgas and Patrick T. Vargas; title: The speed of goal pursuit / Peter M. Gollwitzer and Uwe B. Rohloff; title: Content versus structure in motivation and self-regulation / Heidi Grant and Carol S. Dweck; title: Considering the role of development in self-regulation / Eva M. Pomerantz and Ellen Rydell Altermatt; title: Approaching and avoiding self-determination: comparing cybernetic and organismic paradigms of motivation / Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci; title: Issues in self-control theory and research: confidence, doubt, expectancy bias, and opposing forces / Janet A. Sniezek; title: Responding to attempts at control: autonomy, instrumentality and action identification / Abraham Tesser; title: The dynamics of self-regulation / Robin R. Vallacher and Andrzej Nowak; title: A few more themes, a lot more issues: commentary on the commentaries / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier.