Science and Immediate Social Goals

Social science. Computational social science.

Approach and avoidance social motives and goals.

It was predicted that approach social motives and goals would be linked to outcomes characterized by the presence of positive social features, and avoidance social motives and goals would be linked to outcomes characterized by the presence of negative social features and that the link between approach motives and outcomes would be mediated by different processes than the link between avoidance ...

Social Goals in Conversational Cooperation

We propose a model where dialog obligations arise from the interplay of social goals and intentions of the participants: when an agent is addressed with a request, the agent's decision to commit to the requester's linguistic and domain goals is motivated by a trade-o between the preference for preventing a negative reaction of the requester and the cost of the actions needed to satisfy the goals.

Immediate Rewards Predict Adherence to Long-Term Goals.

People primarily pursue long-term goals, such as exercising, to receive delayed rewards (e.g., improved health). However, we find that the presence of immediate rewards is a stronger predictor of persistence in goal-related activities than the presence of delayed rewards. Specifically, immediate rewards (e.g., enjoyment) predicted current persistence at New Year's resolutions whereas delayed re...

Goals in Nutrition Science 2015–2020

1 Office of Energetics and Nutrition Obesity Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, 2 Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, 3 Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, 4 Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingha...