Limits of Intentionality: An Interdisciplinary Approach

The present special issue of Social Psychology therefore aspires to bring together characteristic perspectives from different disciplines in an analysis of the limits of intentional action control. The contributions in this special issue cover a broad range of research programs, comprising several theoretical and empirical contributions from the field of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and motivation psychology, as well as philosophy and neuroscience. A look at the 10 articles of this special issue quickly reveals the diversity of the different perspectives—as well as important conceptual and methodological similarities. Because we feel that the integration of different perspectives has the potential to propel research on the limits of intentionality, the articles of the special issue are organized along the comprehensive categories of conscious and unconscious action control. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)