On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

by Michael F. Scheier and Charles S. Carver

Book Overview

This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated: ranging from goals, to emotion, to persistence and giving up, to living and dying. Both adaptive behavior and problems are examined. The book blends ideas that have long been part of self-regulation models with ideas that are recently emergent in psychology: dynamic systems and catastrophe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521000998
• ISBN13: 9780521000994
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"