Chapter 2Effective self-regulation of goal attainment
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Peter M. Gollwitzer holds the Social Psychology and Motivation Chair at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and headed the “Intention and Action” research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research in Munich from 1988 to 1992. His research interests include compensatory processes in the willful pursuit of identity, action phases and mind-sets, planning and the control of goal-directed behavior, and automatic goal pursuit.
Gaby Hönig received her M. S. in psychology from the Free University in Berlin in 1999. Her research interests center around motivation and learning. More specifically, she analyzes how cultural and societal factors influence the development of students’ expectations and fantasies.
Gabriele Oettingen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, New York University (USA). She received her Ph.D. from the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Psychology, Seewiesen, and the Medical Research Council, Cambridge. Her research interests include the development of efficacy beliefs across educational and cultural contexts and the self-regulation of goal setting and goal disengagement.