Personal Control in Action

I: The Person as an Agent of Control.- 1 Personal Control from the Perspective of Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory.- 2 Dynamics in the Coordination of Mind and Action.- 3 Opening versus Closing Strategies in Controlling One’s Responses to Experience.- 4 A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychology of Control: Controlling the Uncontrollable.- 5 Personal Goals and Personal Agency: Linking Everyday Goals to Future Images of the Self.- II: Affective and Cognitive Mechanisms of Executive Agency.- 6 The Emotional Control of Behavior.- 7 Mood Management: The Role of Processing Strategies in Affect Control and Affect Infusion.- 8 Ability Perception and Cardiovascular Response to Behavioral Challenge.- 9 Confirmation Bias: Cognitive Error or Adaptive Strategy of Action Control?.- 10 Intrusive Thoughts, Rumination, and Incomplete Intentions.- 11 Decision Making and Action: The Search for a Dominance Structure.- 12 Improving Efficiency of Action Control through Technical and Social Resources.- III: Threatened Personal Control: Mobilization Versus Demobilization.- 13 To Control or Not to Control.- 14 Interpersonal Power Repair in Response to Threats to Control from Dependent Others.- 15 Control Motivation, Depression, and Counterfactual Thought.- 16 Uncontrollability as a Source of Cognitive Exhaustion: Implications for Helplessness and Depression.- 17 Intellectual Helplessness: Domain Specificity, Teaching Styles, and School Achievement.