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Goal Adjustment

Goal Adjustment is a goal regulation strategy within the domain of goal setting theory that involves the deliberate modification, abandonment, or replacement of existing goals in response to situational feedback, personal changes, or impediments to goal attainment.

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Self-regulation through goal setting

Gary P. Latham, Edwin A. Locke · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 1991 · 1.4K citations

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Tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment: Explication and age-related analysis of assimilative and accommodative strategies of coping.

Jochen Brandtstädter, Gerolf Renner · Psychology and Aging · 1990 · 863 citations

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Tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment: Explication and age-related analysis of assimilative and accommodative strategies of coping.

Jochen Brandtstädter, Gerolf Renner · Psychology and Aging · 1990 · 827 citations

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The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment: A Two-Process Framework

Jochen Brandtstädter, Klaus Rothermund · Developmental Review · 2002 · 806 citations

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Leading us not into temptation: Momentary allurements elicit overriding goal activation.

Ayelet Fishbach, Ronald Friedman, Arie W. Kruglanski · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2003 · 685 citations

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Authors

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  1. CW
    Carsten Wrosch

    Concordia University, Canada

    12 publications · 1K citations

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  2. EA
    Edwin A. Locke

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    11 publications · 2.4K citations

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  3. GP
    Gary P. Latham

    University of Toronto, Canada

    8 publications · 2.3K citations

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  4. JN
    Jari‐Erik Nurmi

    University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    7 publications · 538 citations

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  5. VB
    Veronika Brandstätter

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    6 publications · 260 citations

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Institutions

422

  1. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    2.4K citations

  2. New York University

    New York, United States

    12 h-index

    19 publications

    2.1K citations

  3. Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    958 citations

  5. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    2.2K citations

  6. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    789 citations

  8. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    284 citations

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  1. Motivation and Emotion

    18 publications · 791 citations

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  2. Personality and Individual Differences

    21 publications · 687 citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Psychology

    14 publications · 2K citations

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  5. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

    9 publications · 798 citations

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