How people find better lifegoals : The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings
Journal article
Sheldon, Kennon, Lee, Woogul and Reeve, Johnmarshall. (2024). How people find better lifegoals : The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 18(6), pp. 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12974
Authors | Sheldon, Kennon, Lee, Woogul and Reeve, Johnmarshall |
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Abstract | How do people identify new and better lifegoals for themselves? The goal breakthrough model (GBM) purports to answer this question. The GBM draws from creative process theories of preparation, incubation, illumination, and elaboration to explain how people “cross the Rubicon” to new purposes, in response to felt dissatisfaction. Neuroscience research supporting the GBM is reviewed, highlighting brain-sequences linking Default Mode Network activity, Cognitive Control Network activity, and Salience Network activity. This understanding of the neural basis of creative goal-functioning informs an elaborated version of the GBM, one that is less linear and more dynamic than its predecessor model. Overall, the GBM proposes a novel explanation for how people can actively prompt their nonconscious minds to provide new and better behavioral alternatives to consider. |
Keywords | creativity; goal discovery; intrinsic motivation; organismic valuation process; rubicon model; salience network; self-concordance; self-determination theory |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | Social and Personality Psychology Compass |
Journal citation | 18 (6), pp. 95-107 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
ISSN | 1751-9004 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12974 |
Web address (URL) | https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spc3.12974 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 95-107 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 31 May 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 17 May 2024 |
Deposited | 17 Sep 2024 |
Additional information | © 2024 The Author(s). Social and Personality Psychology Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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