Oxford handbook of human action / edited by Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh, Peter Gollwitzer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mechanisms of human action: introduction and background / Ezequiel Morsella -- Basic principles, systems, and phenomena. Cognition and action / Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa Aschersleben, and Iring Koch -- The inhibition of unwanted actions / Clayton E. Curtis and Mark D'Esposito -- The visual control of object manipulation / David A. Westwood -- The two horses of behavior: reflection and impulse / Fritz Strack, Roland Deutsch, and Regina Krieglmeyer -- The activation, selection, and expression. Smart moves: the psychology of everyday perceptual-motor acts / David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek Steven Jax, and Rajal G. Cohen -- How the mind moves the body: lessons from apraxia / Georg Goldenberg -- Speech errors and the implicit learning of phonological sequences / Gary S. Dell, Jill A. Warker, and Christine Whalen -- What do we prime? On distinguishing between semantic priming, procedural priming, and goal priming / Jens Forster, Nira Liberman, and Ronald S. Friedman -- Action and mental representation. The prefrontal cortex stores structured event complexes that are the representational basis for cognitively-derived actions / Jordan Grafman and Frank Krueger -- Interactions between action and visual objects / Rob Ellis -- The movement of eye and hand as a window into language and cognition / Michael Spivey, Daniel Richardson, and Rick Dale -- Action representation as the bedrock of social cognition: a developmental neuroscience perspective / Jean Decety and Jessica A. Sommerville -- Affect, goals, and movement. Affect and action control / Deidre L. Reis and Jeremy R. Gray -- Action, affect, and two-mode models of functioning / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier -- From goal-activation to action: how does preference and use of knowledge intervene? / Arthur B. Markman, C. Miguel Brendl, and Kyungil Kim -- The role of goal-systems in self-regulation / Arie W. Kruglanski and Catalina Kopetz -- The or�s and sources of action. Acquisition, representation, and control of action / Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner -- Flexibility in the development of action / Karen E. Adolph, Amy S. Joh, John M. Franchak, Shaziela Ishak, and Simone V. Gill -- The role of memory in the control of action / Gordon D. Logan -- Automaticity in situ and in te lab: the nature of habit in daily life / David T. Neal and Wendy Wood -- Mimicry: its ubiquity, importance, and functionality / Tanya L. Chartrand and Amy N. Dalton -- Control, choice, and volition. Free willpower: a limited resource theory of volition, choice, and self-regulation / Roy F. Baumeister, Matthew T. Gaillot, and Dianne M. Tice -- Decision utility, incentive salience, and cue-triggered wanting / Kent C. Berridge and J. Wayne Aldridge -- On the neural implementation of optimal decisions / Patrick Simen, Philip Holmes, and Jonathan D. Cohen -- Non-conscious goal pursuit and the effortful control of behavior / Ran R. Hassin, Henk Aarts, Baruch Eitam, Ruud Custers, and Tali Kleiman -- Phenomenal and metacognitive. Elbow grease: when action feels like work / Jesse Preston and Daniel M. Wegner -- Consciousness as a trouble shooting device? The role of consciousness in goal pursuit / Karin C. A. Bongers and Ap Dijksterhuis -- Living on the edge: shifting between nonconscious and conscious goal pursuit / Peter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm, and Gabriele Oettingen -- The primary function of consciousness: why skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles / Ezequiel Morsella, Stephen C. Krieger, and John A. Bargh.