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Self-Regulation and Goals
INSTRUCTORS: James Shah & Constantine Sedikides
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James Shah |
Constantine Sedikides |
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Our seminar will focus on the re-emergence and general utility of motivational perspectives in social psychology. In providing a discussion-centered overview of classic and contemporary issues, our courses will focus on three general issues: The fundamental distinctions and characteristics of motivation, fundamental motivational processes and systems, and fundamental implications for social behavior and well-being. In doing so, we will examine research and theorizing on specific types of motivation (e.g., achievement, altruism, power, self-defense), as well as work that examines the goal-related systems and processes through which motivation comes to influence action, cognition, and emotions. Finally, we will consider the potential utility of motivational approaches for improving psychological health and well-being and resolving interpersonal and social conflict.
Constantine Sedikides is currently the Head of the Social and Personality Psychology Research Group (founded in 1999) and the Director of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity (founded in 2000). Constantine's research interests are in the area of The Self. His current work focuses on (1) intrapersonal and interpersonal constraints of self-superiority beliefs (self-enhancement), (2) relative benefits and performance consequences of self-enhancing versus self-improving feedback, (3) narcissistic self-esteem, (4) genetic bases of self-esteem, (5) implicit and explicit strategies deployed to protect the self against threatening feedback, (6) the importance of close relationships for the self, and (7) functions of nostalgia. Research in these and other topics has resulted in over 120 publications and seven volumes. Constantine is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
James Shah is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duke University. Dr. Shahâ•˙s work focuses on goal pursuit, with a particular focus on understanding how people pursue goals, both deliberately and automatically, and learn to manage disparate pursuits. His work has focused on the social antecedents and consequences of goal pursuit, exploring the automatic ways in which significant others may influence peopleâ•˙s goals and the implications of goal pursuits for the ways in which people perceive and interact with others.