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Motivation und Handlungskontrolle: Ohne guten Willen geht es nicht

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Als ich Anfang der 70er Jahre meinen ersten Versuch machte, das motivationstheoretische Paradigma um eine mir wichtig erscheinende Prozeßkomponente zu erweitern (Kühl, 1972), wagte ich noch nicht, diesen bislang vernach-lässigten Prozeßaspekt mit dem Begriff „Wille“ zu bezeichnen, obwohl es mir genau um die psychischen Abschirmvorgänge ging, die in der früheren deutschen Willenspsychologie so intensiv untersucht worden waren (Ach, 1905, 1910). Der Begriff Wille war in der experimentalpsychologischen Tradition zum Tabuwort geworden und mußte oft unter unscheinbaren Decknahmen ein Schattendasein in Nachbardisziplinen führen. Dafür gab es viele Gründe. Zwar hatte bereits Ach (1910) mit seiner Unterscheidung zwischen der „positive“ und der „negativen“ Definition der Willensfreiheit eine klare Grundlage für die Abgrenzung des Gegenstandes der experimentellen Willenspsychologie von dem philosophisch stark belasteten Willensbegriff geleistet. Trotzdem könnte man meinen, daß es den Philosophen gelungen war, den Psychologen Angst vor der experimentellen Analyse des Willens einzujagen. Diese Angst konnte sich natürlich auch deshalb ungehindert ausbreiten, weil sich die Experimen- talpsychologen inzwischen selbst eine Philosophie zugelegt hatten, die auch durchaus unschuldiger anmutende Konzepte aus der Psychologie verbannen wollte.

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Kühl, J. (1987). Motivation und Handlungskontrolle: Ohne guten Willen geht es nicht. In: Heckhausen, H., Gollwitzer, P.M., Weinert, F.E. (eds) Jenseits des Rubikon. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71763-5_8

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