THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY Gy FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY Not to be taken from this building | Social Sciences and History Division | BREoF as :" a DGoIal SdiCreActeRd D DATE a io A ‘| te a = Hia s — es = = HE a! } | EDUCATION & PHILOSOPHY Form 125m The Chicago Public Library <AAA Received Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/goaldirectedbeha0OOOunse GOAL DIRECTED BEHAVIOR: The Concept of Action in Psychology GOAL DIRECTED BEHAVIOR: The Concept of Action in Psychology Edited By MICHAEL FRESE University of Pennsylvania JOHN SABINI University of Pennsylvania [EA LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 1985 Hillsdale, New Jersey London Copyright © 1985 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 365 Broadway Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Goal directed behavior. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Intentionalism. 2. Goal (Psychology) I. Frese, Michael. II. Sabini, John, 1947- BF619.5.G63 1985 153.8 84-24722 ISBN 0-89859-529-0 Printed in the United States of America LOMO Si 2 Gm ores ee Fl Contributors Michael Athay, School of Law, New York University, New York, New York, United States Jonathan Baron, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Lee Roy Beach, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chi- cago, Illinois, United States Virginia Blankenship, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, United States Donald E. Broadbent, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England Michael Chapman, Max Planck Institut fiir Psychologische Forschung, Munchen, West Germany John M. Darley, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Kim G. Dolan, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis, Minnesota, United States Michael Frese, Institut fiir Psychologie, Miinchen, West Germany Charles R. Gallistel, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Winfried Hacker, Technische Universitat, Dresden, German Democratic Republic Heinz Heckhausen, Max Planck Institut fiir Psychologische Forschung, Berlin, West Germany Claes von Hofsten, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Eric Klinger, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis, Minnesota, United States Debra A. Kossman, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Julius Kuhl, Max Planck Institut fir Psychologische Forschung, Berlin, West Germany vi CONTRIBUTORS Richard S. Lazarus, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States Ulric Neisser, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Geor- gia, United States Franz Reither, Studiengang Psychologie, Universitat Bamberg, Bamberg, West Germany John Sabini, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, United States Wolfgang Schnotz, Deutsches Institut fiir Fernstudien, Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, West Germany Wolfgang Schoénpflug, Institut fiir Psychologie der Freien Universitat, Berlin, West Germany Volker Schurig, Interdisziplinares Zentrum fiir Hocjschuldidaktik der Univer- sitat, Hamburg, West Germany Norbert Semmer, Bundesgesundheitsamt, Berlin, West Germany Rainer K. Silbereisen, Institut fiir Psychologie, Berlin, West Germany Maury Silver, Baltimore, Maryland, United States Ellen A. Skinner, Max Planck Institut fiir Psychologische Forschung, Berlin, West Germany Michael Stadler, Studiengang Psychologie Universitat Bremen, Bremen, West Germany Thea Staudel, Studiengang Psychologie, Universitat Bamberg, Bamberg, West Germany Walter Volpert, Technische Universitat, Berlin, West Germany Theo Wehner, Studiengang Psychologie Universitat Bremen, Bremen, West Germany