Personal Control in Action Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms / edited by Miroslaw Kofta, Gifford Weary, Grzegorz Sedek.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kofta, Miroslaw (Editor), Weary, Gifford (Editor), Sedek, Grzegorz (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
Edition:	1st ed. 1998.
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology, Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Clinical psychology. Cognitive psychology. Personality. Social psychology. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

Table of Contents:

I: The Person as an Agent of Control
1 Personal Control from the Perspective of Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
2 Dynamics in the Coordination of Mind and Action
3 Opening versus Closing Strategies in Controlling One’s Responses to Experience
4 A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychology of Control: Controlling the Uncontrollable
5 Personal Goals and Personal Agency: Linking Everyday Goals to Future Images of the Self
II: Affective and Cognitive Mechanisms of Executive Agency
6 The Emotional Control of Behavior
7 Mood Management: The Role of Processing Strategies in Affect Control and Affect Infusion
8 Ability Perception and Cardiovascular Response to Behavioral Challenge
9 Confirmation Bias: Cognitive Error or Adaptive Strategy of Action Control?
10 Intrusive Thoughts, Rumination, and Incomplete Intentions
11 Decision Making and Action: The Search for a Dominance Structure
12 Improving Efficiency of Action Control through Technical and Social Resources
III: Threatened Personal Control: Mobilization Versus Demobilization
13 To Control or Not to Control
14 Interpersonal Power Repair in Response to Threats to Control from Dependent Others
15 Control Motivation, Depression, and Counterfactual Thought
16 Uncontrollability as a Source of Cognitive Exhaustion: Implications for Helplessness and Depression
17 Intellectual Helplessness: Domain Specificity, Teaching Styles, and School Achievement.

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