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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2010 Mar 9;21(4):499–504. doi: 10.1177/0956797610364751

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The process of motivating goal-directed behavior through interrogative self-talk. Self-posed questions about a future behavior may inspire thoughts about autonomous or intrinsically motivated reasons to pursue a goal, leading a person to form corresponding intentions and ultimately to perform the behavior.