Moving beyond the traditional, and unproductive, rivalry between the fields of motivation and cognition, this book integrates the two domains to shed new light on the control of goal-directed action. Renowned social and motivational psychologists present concise formulations of the latest research programs which are effectively mapping the territory, providing new findings, and suggesting innovative strategies for future research. Ideally structured for classroom use, this book will effectively familiarize readers with important theories in the psychology of action.
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The Psychology of Action I have found this book to be a great reference for goal theory. Having been published in 1996, it provides another source for following the evolution of goal theory, after such books as Maehr and Braskamp’s, “The Motivation Factor”, and Locke and Latham’s, “A Theory of Goal Setting & Task Performance”. The contributing authors read like a who’s who of contemporary goal setting and achievement research. It has been very helpful in my research, it collects into one…