What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior.

By Robin R. Vallacher, Daniel M. Wegner. 1987

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Plan explicability and predictability for robot task planning (2015, background): “As suggested in psychological studies [24, 5], we assume that humans naturally interpret a plan as achieving abstract tasks (or subgoals), which are functional interpretations of agent action sequences in the plan.”
A Theoretical Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model: Four Longitudinal Field Studies (2000, background): “Within social psychology, action identification theory (Vallacher and Wegner 1987, p. 4) posits an organized cognitive representation of action, called the identity structure, which links lower-level identities regarding specific actions to higher-level identities indicating why the action is done…”
When and why do individuals craft their jobs? The role of individual motivation and work characteristics for job crafting (2016, background): “Action identification theory (Vallacher and Wegner, 1987) states that individuals represent their actions on different levels in a cognitive hierarchy that guide how an individual engages in an action.”
Some key differences between a happy life and a meaningful life (2013, unknown): “Consistent with that view that meaning integrates across time, Vallacher and Wegner (1985, 1987) found that higher levels of meaning were consistently marked by longer time frames.”
The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations (2006, unknown): “Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1987).”
Cues to deception. (2003, background): “Another path to self-betrayal is to direct efforts at expressive control at the wrong level (Vallacher & Wegner, 1987; Vallacher, Wegner, McMahan, Cotter, & Larsen, 1992).”
Personality and Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole Person (2005, unknown): “According to Weinberger (1998), this category suggests that Jennifer is uncomfortable with putting her needs before those of others.”
Time for Reflection: A Critical Examination of Polychronicity (2010, background): “Tasks can be identified at different levels (cf. Vallacher & Wegner, 1987).”
The Effects of Consumer Prior Knowledge and Processing Strategies on Judgments (2010, background): “Differences in prior knowledge are likely to influence preferences for the level of construal used to present information (Trope and Liberman 2003; Vallacher and Wegner 1987).”
Automaticity: a theoretical and conceptual analysis. (2006, background): “Acts can be described at various levels, from low-level descriptions containing physical details to more abstract, high-level descriptions (e.g., Vallacher & Wegner, 1987).”
When Thinking Beats Doing: The Role of Optimistic Expectations in Goal-Based Choice (2007, background): “With the presence of multiple conflicting goals, self-regulatory goal pursuit of one goal could be understood in terms of progress toward the goal or in terms of commitment to the goal (Carver & Scheier, 1998; Kruglanski et al., 2002).”
Seeing the Big Picture: Piano Practice as Expert Problem Solving (2003, unknown): “" Reports of ongoing behavior thus reflect the level in the action hierarchy that is the current focus of attention (Carlson, 1997; Vallacher & Wegner, 1987).”
Health and goal-directed behavior: The nonconscious regulation and motivation of goals and their pursuit (2007, background): “Specifically, given the intimate relationship between conceptual knowledge and mental representations of goal-directed behavior (Aarts et al, in press; Vallacher & Wegner, 1987 ), we posit that a primed goal concept automatically provides a current reference point for directing cognition and action”