Research on achievement goals is voluminous but focused primarily on intrapersonal
regulation. In the present article, we emphasize the integral role that achievement goals also …

How do task groups react to poor performers? We integrate attribution theory with individual
motivation theories in a novel, parsimonious model that makes nuanced predictions. Our …

Consumers frequently make choices and purchase products for other people (eg, buying a
gift for a friend). While extant research identified many factors that influence how choices for …

Two studies examined whether implementation intentions, self-regulatory “if-then” plans, can
alter social projection–people's tendency to automatically assume that other people share …

Objective: When task groups depend on all members' contributions, one poor performer can
threaten the entire group's goal attainment. The model of pro-group intent (M-PGI) stipulates …

In three experiments, I investigate how supervisors' task performance in lower-level jobs
prior to being promoted to the supervisory level influences the targets they set for …

Based on social projection research, four studies investigated whether people rely on their
own regulatory focus when making predictions about others. Chronic (Study 1) and induced …

Three studies investigated the phenomenon of goal projection in everyday life considering
three moderators: goal commitment, the perceived similarity of the target person, and goal …

This study examined how individuals' goals and inferences about partners' goals vary
moment-by-moment during romantic conflicts. Seventy romantic couples discussed a current …

I ask my reader to be charitable and forgive or tolerate not only my limited competence in
several crucial domains (like political theory or psychotherapy) and the impossibility to be …