G. Oettingen

Spontaneous Goal-Related Cognition Predicts Well-Being and Real-World Goal Attainment Across Adulthood in a Think-Aloud Study

Decades of research has established that how we think about our goals shapes psychological well-being and daily behavior, yet much of what we know derives from paradigms that deliberately prompt goal cognition. Across two studies (N = 173), we developed and applied a novel hierarchical coding scheme to Think-Aloud Prot...