TY - BOOK AU - Carver, Charles S. AU - Scheier, Michael. TI - On the self-regulation of behavior SN - 9780521572040;0521572045 PY - 1998/// CY - Cambridge, UK ;;New York, NY, USA PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Power, Psychological KW - Behavior KW - Feedback KW - Goals N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-422) and indexes; 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 ER -