Motivation and Goals

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Tourism Social Science Series

Volume

27

First Page

97

Last Page

113

Publisher

Emerald

School

School of Arts and Humanities

Comments

Campos, A.C. and Scott, N. (2024), "Motivation and Goals", Cognitive Psychology and Tourism (Tourism Social Science Series, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320240000027009

Abstract

Goals play a critical role in everyday life and shape life and lifestyles. This chapter reviews and discusses the main approaches to the study of goals, addressing main theoretical endeavours that have emerged from psychological research, and emphasising the contributions from cognitive psychology to the topic. It also discusses literature on goals and motivation as found in tourism studies, highlighting the theoretical underpinnings used in this field. The discussion concludes with the need to update, in tourism studies, knowledge from cognitive psychology and propose how a better understanding of the cognitive foundations of goal-oriented behaviour can contribute to change tourism practice.

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10.1108/S1571-504320240000027009

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