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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-Rational Goals [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Abstract We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make substandard performance psychologically painful. A
Koch, Alexander Karl, Nafziger, Julia
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Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2023 AbstractGoal-based investing is concerned with reaching a monetary investment goal by a given finite deadline, which differs from mean-variance optimization in modern portfolio theory. In this article, we expand the close connection between goal-based investing and option hedging that was originally discovered in Browne (Adv Appl Probab 31(2):551–577 ...
Thomas Krabichler, Marcus Wunsch
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On Having a Goal: Goals as Representations or Behavior [PDF]
The Psychological Record, 2014 The present article discusses the concepts of having a goal and of goal-directed behavior from a behavior-analytic perspective. In clinical psychology as well as in the study of human behavior at large, goals delineate an important area of investigation when it comes to health, well-being, and behavioral change.
Niklas Törneke, Jonas Ramnerö
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Journal of Perinatal Education, 2006 In this column, a childbirth educator takes a humorous look at teaching methods and goal setting.
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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2011 The last issue of the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH) - Journal of Hematology and Hemotherapy - was the result of a sequence of events that began after the emergence of the new Qualis classification established by the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal do Ensino Superior (CAPES) of the Brazilian Government that ranks ...
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econoquantum, 2008 We develop a methodology to estimate the required time and the minimum necessary growth rate to meet a poverty goal for a series of counterfactual income distributions and growth scenarios. The methodology can be applied to most poverty measures and is illustrated with data from Madagascar.
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HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, 1977 In the first part of this paper I intend to argue that anthropologists have a predominantly causal conception of explanation and that the only feasible way to avoid this is to apply consistently the assumption of goal-orientation of behaviour, that is to hold what could broadly be called a teleological conception of explanation – a view that ...
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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1919 THE urgent necessity for increasing and "speeding up" the output of munitions and other essential materials during the war, and the prospective unprecedented demands following the period of devastation and non-production, have focused attention, as never before, upon production-and its attendant problems.
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