Goals

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Goal-referenced selection of verbal action: modeling attentional control in the Stroop task.

This article presents a new account of the color-word Stroop phenomenon (J. R. Stroop, 1935) based on an implemented model of word production, WEAVER++ (W. J. M. Levelt, A. Roelofs, & A. S. Meyer, 1999b; A. Roelofs, 1992, 1997c). Stroop effects are ...
Ardi Roelofs (Psychol Rev, 200301)
goal-referenced-selection-verbal-action-modeling-attentional-control.asp

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Thinking of you: nonconscious pursuit of interpersonal goals associated with relationship partners.

The mere psychological presence of relationship partners was hypothesized to trigger interpersonal goals that are then pursued nonconsciously. Qualitative data suggested that people tend to pursue different interpersonal goals within different types of ...
Gráinne M Fitzsimons, John A Bargh (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200301)
thinking-nonconscious-pursuit-interpersonal-goals-associated.asp

83.

Rekindling reform: principles and goals.

Members of the Rekindling Reform Steering Committee collaborated over a period of several months in early 2002 to develop a set of principles and goals to help guide and define the groups efforts for comprehensive health care reform in the United States. ...
(Am J Public Health, 200301)
rekindling-reform-principles-goals.asp

84.

Take benchmarking to the next level.

Reposition and revitalize your organization by teaching staff members to use data for identifying, setting, and directing performance ...
My N Tran (Nurs Manage, 200301)
take-benchmarking-next-level.asp

85.

The movement for universal health insurance: finding common ground.

Before 1971, all proposals for universal health insurance were based on private sector financing and administration. After 1971, universal health insurance plans relying on the private sector complicated efforts of the universal health insurance ...
Thomas Bodenheimer (Am J Public Health, 200301)
movement-universal-health-insurance-finding-common-ground.asp

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Perception of action boundaries in patients with frontal lobe damage.

The prefrontal cortex is known to be involved in action planning and in controlling behaviour. Neuropsychological evidence also supports the idea that the prefrontal cortex is generally involved in processing complex events, such as action knowledge. ...
Tiziana Zalla, Pascale Pradat-Diehl, Angela Sirigu (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
perception-action-boundaries-patients-frontal-lobe-damage.asp

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The Bobo dilemma. Psychotherapeutic reflections on a contemporary myth.

This paper investigates the psychological consequences of a social ethos that has emerged in the 1990s; the Bourgeois Bohemian (in short, Bobo) that claims that the bourgeois striving for financial success and status can be reconciled with the Bohemian ...
Carlo Strenger (Am J Psychother, 2003)
bobo-dilemma-psychotherapeutic-reflections-contemporary-myth.asp

88.

The role of kinaesthetic feedback in goal-directed movements.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of kinaesthetic feedback in the control of goal-directed movements. The subjects were qualified basketball and handball players compared to weightlifters as controls. The body measures and the general ...
L Angyán, T Téczely, A Pálfai, Z Gyurkó, I Karsai (Acta Physiol Hung, 2003)
role-kinaesthetic-feedback-goal-directed-movements.asp

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Frontal and parietal participation in problem solving in the Tower of London: fMRI and computational modeling of planning and high-level perception.

This study triangulates executive planning and visuo-spatial reasoning in the context of the Tower of London (TOL) task by using a variety of methodological approaches. These approaches include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional ...
Sharlene D Newman, Patricia A Carpenter, Sashank Varma, Marcel Adam Just (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
frontal-parietal-participation-problem-solving-tower-london-fmri.asp

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Personality and quality of life: the importance of optimism and goal adjustment.

This article concerns the relations between personality and quality of life. In the first part, we discuss different conceptualizations of personality and quality of life. We argue that personality affects quality of life by influencing how people ...
Carsten Wrosch, Michael F Scheier (Qual Life Res, 2003)
personality-quality-life-importance-optimism-goal-adjustment.asp