Planning has been studied in different fields of psychology, including cognitive,
developmental, personality, social, and work and organizational research. This article looks …

The self-regulation strategy of forming implementation intentions has now been studied for
almost 30 years. We trace the development of this research and explicate the questions that …

Given its acceptance and value as an important facet of workplace behavior, research has
primarily attempted to understand adaptive performance by way of examining its …

This article presents a combined motivational and volitional intervention based on the theory
of planned behavior aimed at promoting expansion-oriented job crafting behaviors …

Disengaging from unattainable goals and reengaging in alternative goals is essential for
effective goal pursuit; yet, surprisingly little is known about associated personality factors …

Making if-then plans is a self-regulation strategy that facilitates goal attainment. An open
question is, however, whether there are individual differences in if-then planning. We …

In the present article, I will try to elucidate how relying on the goal concept facilitates the
development and testing of theories in the science of motivation. For this purpose, I will focus …

This chapter begins with a description of how the goal concept emerged in the history of the
psychology of motivation to better understand the important role it plays in current research …

Volleyball serves constitute an important example for a self-controlled sequence of actions
in sports that is difficult to improve. It is therefore paramount to investigate whether and how …

Implementation intentions are IF-THEN plans that have the potential to reduce mobile phone
use while driving and thus contribute towards the prevention of road traffic crashes. We …