Personal Control in Action

Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms

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.