On the self-regulation of behavior / Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier.

Author/creator Carver, Charles S.
Other author Scheier, Michael.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxx, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction and plan -- Principles of feedback control -- Discrepancy-reducing feedback processes in behavior -- Discrepancy-enlarging loops, and three further issues -- Goals and behavior -- Goals, Hierarchicality, and behavior: further issues -- Public and private aspects of the self -- Control processes and affect -- Affect: issues and comparisons -- Expectancies and disengagement -- Disengagement: issues and comparisons -- Applications to problems in living -- Hierarchicality and problems in living -- Chaos and dynamic systems -- Catastrophe theory -- Further applications to problems in living -- Is behavior controlled or does it emerge -- Goal engagement, life, and death.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [365]-422) and index.
LCCN 98015204
ISBN0521572045 (hardback)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BF611 .C35 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold