Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

Selbstmanagement kann ausgesprochen lustvoll sein, wenn es sich konsequent an
persönlichen Ressourcen orientiert. Das Zürcher Ressourcen Modell (ZRM®) ist eine …

• Why do people behave and think the way they do?• What makes people choose certain
products and services?• How does consumption affect our everyday lives? Informed by …

A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing
your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life. When …

This chapter offers an explanation of why our culture, and our field, has attached positive
value only to persistence and not to quitting, while in our view the ability to quit is every bit as …

Winner of the 2017 APA William James Book Award The concept of passion is one we
regularly use to describe our interests, and yet there is no broad theory that can explain the …

We discuss the development of Eccles, Wigfield, and colleagues' expectancy-value model of
achievement motivation (now called SEVT for situated expectancy value theory) and review …

Kritische Lebensereignisse gehören zum Erfahrungshorizont fast aller Menschen. Es gilt zu
präzisieren, was Ereignisse als kritisch ausweist und welchen Platz sie jeweils im Leben …

This review addresses conceptual and empirical research about how individual agency and
motivation influences development during adulthood and old age. The major life-span …