NUS Situated Goal Pursuit Lab

Goals are desirable end-states people want to maintain (e.g., staying healthy) or achieve (e.g., academic excellence). More often than not, people pursue important goals in various intrapersonal (e.g., temptations, prior goal pursuit efforts) and interpersonal (e.g., others’ goal pursuit, social interaction) contexts. Consistent with the perspective of situated social cognition (Smith & Semin, 2004), our lab examines how the various aspects of the goal pursuit process are dynamically shaped by the relevant context. Visit our lab at https://situatedgoalpursuit.com/