On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

Wright, Bradley R. Entner, Carver, Charles S., Scheier, Michael F.·2000·Contemporary Sociology

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1. Introduction and plan 2. Principles of feedback control 3. Discrepancy reducing feedback processes in behavior 4. Discrepancy enlarging loops, and three further issues 5. Goals and behavior 6. Goals, hierarchicality, and behavior: further issues 7. Public and private aspects of the self 8. Control processes and affect 9. Affect: issues and comparisons 10. Expectancies and disengagement 11. Disengagement: issues and comparisons 12. Applications to problems in living 13. Hierarchicality and problems in living 14. Chaos and dynamic systems 15. Catastrophe theory 16. Further applications to problems in living 17. Is behavior controlled or does it emerge? 18. Goal engagement, life and death.

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Authors: Wright, B. R. E., Carver, C. S., & Scheier, M. F.
Venue: Contemporary Sociology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2000-03
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
Pages: 386
ISSN: 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.2307/2654424
OpenAlex: W1983786736
Cited by: 3,327
References: 0
FWCI: 114.73
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed

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