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Emerging Goals and the Self-Regulation of Behavior

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We agree with the general thrust of Carver and Scheier’s position on self-regulation and applaud their important effort to integrate complexity models in their synthesis.

Republished with permission of Taylor and Francis Group LCC Books © 1991 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates R.W. Wyer (Ed.) Advances in Social Cognition, Vol. 12: Perspectives on behavioral self-regulation. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

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The Creativity in Later Life Project was funded by a grant from the Spencer Foundation.

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  1. Division of Behavioral & Organizational Science, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  2. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Jeanne Nakamura

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Csikszentmihalyi, M., Nakamura, J. (2014). Emerging Goals and the Self-Regulation of Behavior. In: Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9088-8_13

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