Expectations and Actions

Preface. 1. Introduction and Overview Norman T. Feather Part 1: The Context of Achievement Motivation 2. Old and New Conceptions of How Expected Consequences Influence Actions John W. Atkinson 3. Actions in Relation to Expected Consequences: An Overview of a Research Program Norman T. Feather 4. Future Orientation, Self-Evaluation, and Achievement Motivation: Use of an Expectancy x Value Theory of Personality Functioning and Change Joel O. Raynor 5. The Expectancy-Value Approach within the Theory of Social Motivation: Elaborations, Extensions, Critique Julius Kuhl Part 2: The Context of Attribution Theory 6. An Attributionally Based Theory of Motivation and Emotion: Focus, Range, and Issues Bernard Weiner Part 3: The Context of Information Feedback 7. Expectation and What People Learn from Failure Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Philip Brickman Part 4: The Context of Social Learning Theory 8. Social Learning Theory Julian B. Rotter Part 5: The Context of Values and Attitudes 9. Human Values and the Prediction of Action: An Expectancy-Valence Analysis Norman T. Feather Part 6: The Context of Organizational Psychology 10. Expectancy-Value Models in Organizational Psychology Terence R. Mitchell Part 7: The Context of Decision Making 11. The Experienced Utility of Expected Utility Approaches Baruch Fischhoff, Bernard Goitein, and Zur Shapira 12. Conflict Theory of Decision Making and the Expectancy-Value Approach Leon Mann and Irving Janis 13. Expectancy-Based Decision Schemes: Sidesteps Toward Applications Barbara H. Beach and Lee Roy Beach 14. Expectancy-Value Approaches: Present Status and Future Directions Norman T. Feather. Author Index. Subject Index.