Why do we avoid getting our hopes up? I suggest that this is because affect is attached to our meaningful goals, as ...

Most of us live by goals. We want to save for retirement, lose weight, get promoted, or spend more time with family. Yet few people pause to ask: Why do we pursue the goals we do? Or even more ...

We invite research that interrogates goal setting through the lens of psychological science. We welcome diverse theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives on how individuals envision, pursue, ...

Every January, offices quietly reset. New planners appear on desks. Fresh notebooks open in meetings. To-do lists look neater, ambitions clearer. There is a shared sense that this year, things will be ...

Psychology is the study of mind, behavior, and human experience. This includes the mental processes we experience, from our fleeting thoughts and dreams to our sense of consciousness, including our ...