By Gordon B. Moskowitz,Heidi Grant
Bringing jointly top experts, this tightly edited quantity studies the breadth of present wisdom approximately ambitions and their key position in human habit. offered are state-of-the-art theories and findings that make clear the methods humans opt for and prioritize pursuits; how they're pursued; components that result in luck or failure in attaining specific goals; and results for person functioning and future health. Thorough cognizance is given to either awake and nonconscious techniques. The organic, cognitive, affective, and social underpinnings of targets are explored, as is their courting to different motivational constructs.
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