Goal achievement: The role of intentions

PM Gollwitzer - European review of social psychology, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
The intention-to-behavior process is analyzed with respect to implementation intentions.
These intentions link an intended goal-directed behavior to an anticipated situational …

Implementation intentions and effective goal pursuit.

PM Gollwitzer, V Brandstätter - Journal of personality and social …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
The theoretical distinction between goal intentions (" I intend to achieve x") and
implementation intentions (" I intend to perform goal-directed behavior y when I encounter …

Implementation intentions: strong effects of simple plans.

PM Gollwitzer - American psychologist, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
When people encounter problems in translating their goals into action (eg, failing to get
started, becoming distracted, or falling into bad habits), they may strategically call on …

Action control by implementation intentions: Effective cue detection and efficient response initiation

EJ Parks–Stamm, PM Gollwitzer, G Oettingen - Social Cognition, 2007 - Guilford Press
Past research has demonstrated that implementation intentions (ie, if–then plans) facilitate
goal striving by two processes: increasing the activation of the anticipated situational cue …

How do implementation intentions promote goal attainment? A test of component processes

TL Webb, P Sheeran - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2007 - Elsevier
Implementation intentions are plans that specify the when, where, and how of goal striving in
advance, and have been shown to enhance rates of goal attainment compared to merely …

Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta‐analysis of effects and processes

PM Gollwitzer, P Sheeran - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2006 - Elsevier
Holding a strong goal intention (“I intend to reach Z!”) does not guarantee goal achievement,
because people may fail to deal effectively with self‐regulatory problems during goal …

The interplay between goal intentions and implementation intentions

P Sheeran, TL Webb… - Personality and social …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Two studies tested whether action control by implementation intentions is sensitive to the
activation and strength of participants' underlying goal intentions. In Study 1, participants …

From Intentions to Behavior: Implementation Intention, Commitment, and Conscientiousness1

I Ajzen, C Czasch, MG Flood - Journal of applied social …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation intentions are said to transfer control over goal‐directed behavior to
situational cues, thereby automating initiation of the behavior (Gollwitzer, 1999) …

Intentional action and action slips.

H Heckhausen, J Beckmann - Psychological review, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
The main assumption in this article is that actions are guided by mentally represented
intentions. Intentions are subdivided into goal intentions and their contingent instrumental …

Structural equation modeling of determinants of planning

T Gärling, S Fujii - Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A model is proposed that implies that planning evoked by the formation of an
implementation intention is related to behavioral intention and perceived behavioral control …