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Allocating Commitment Under Uncertainty: A Formal Theory of Intention Formation

2026-06-09

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<p>Humans regularly form intentions to guide future behaviour; yet many intentions fail to translate into effective goal pursuit. Forming implementation intentions—or context-specific if–then plans—can improve goal pursuit relative to more general goal intentions. However, current theoretical accounts of intention formation are largely descriptive and do not formally specify the conditions under which different in...

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Literature Corpus work: aba43578-6fc5-559c-b45a-1edd78799c1d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/v4wqc_v5

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