Goals are “internal representations of desired states”(Austin & Vancouver, 1996, p. 338),
and goal intentions are people's self-instructions to achieve these desired states or to …

Motives may be said to be unconscious in a variety of ways. They may be automatically and
unconsciously elicited by consciously perceptible situational cues; they may be instigated by …

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals
and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical …

Monetary rewards facilitate performance on behavioral and cognitive tasks, even when
these rewards are perceived without conscious awareness. Also, recent research suggests …

In this chapter, we review research on interpersonal everyday problem solving from
adolescence through old age. First, we provide a brief history of the emergence of research …

Burnout is not an automatic process that is dependent only on occupational stressors, but
the result of the interaction between the person and the occupational context. Burnout is an …

Forming implementation intentions has been consistently shown to be a powerful self-
regulatory strategy. As the self-regulation of thoughts is important for the experience of …

When reaching goals, organisms must simultaneously meet the overarching goal of
conserving energy. According to the law of least effort, organisms will select the means …

Laboratory tasks (eg, the flanker task) reveal that incidental stimuli (eg, distractors) can
reliably trigger involuntary conscious imagery. Can such involuntary effects, involving …

How do we translate our intentions into actions? The psychology of action approach (eg,
Gollwitzer and Bargh, 1996; Hommel and Nattkemper, 2011; Lewin, Dembo, Festinger and …