Personal Goals, Implicit Motives, and Self-Regulated Learning

Overview & Synopsis

This Festschrift celebrates the contributions of Joachim C. Brunstein to motivation studies, personality psychology, and the science of self- and co-regulated learning in the classroom. In six chapters, colleagues and former students explore some of the ways in which Brunstein’s work has fostered a better understanding of human goal striving, implicit motivational needs, how subjective well-being is shaped by the interplay between personal goals and implicit motives, and collaborative and self-regulated learning at school. The Festschrift also provides in-depth accounts of how Brunstein’s research interests came about and developed over the course of his career.