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Motivation and Goals

Cognitive Psychology and Tourism

ISBN: 978-1-80262-580-6, eISBN: 978-1-80262-579-0

Publication date: 24 June 2024

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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Citation

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

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2024 Noel Scott, Brent Moyle, Ana Cláudia Campos, Liubov Skavronskaya and Biqiang Liu. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited