Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness: Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of August Flammer

Offers design perspectives about the control of human behaviour, awareness, consciousness and the meaning and function of perceived control - or self efficacy - in people’s lives. Perceived control is perhaps one of the most important topics in psychology, and therefore evaluated. This book breaks down the borders of narow disciplines, and constitutes an occasion to reflect on control and its various facets in human life. Each expert summarizes his or her field under the perspectives of perceived control and shows how these insights can be applied in practice. This volume is aimed at graduate and doctoral students in their educational programme as well as for lecturers and professors.