Published in:
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7 (2013) 2, Seite 79-92
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/spc3.12015
ISSN:
1751-9004
Origination:
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Description:
AbstractActions require two essential functions: assessment and locomotion. Assessment determines one’s goals and selects the means. Locomotion translates these into concrete behavior. In past work, assessment and locomotion have been portrayed as co‐ordinated and interdependent, or associated with different action phases. In contrast, we review recent theorizing and research that depict assessment and locomotion as autonomous and complementary. Recent evidence supports this conception for the behavior of individuals, groups, organizations, and cultures in reference to actions at different levels of analysis.