I: The Person as an Agent of Control -- 1 Personal Control from the Perspective of Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory -- 2 Dynamics in the Coordination of Mind and Action -- 3 Opening versus Closing Strategies in Controlling One's Responses to Experience -- 4 A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychology of Control: Controlling the Uncontrollable -- 5 Personal Goals and Personal Agency: Linking Everyday Goals to Future Images of the Self -- II: Affective and Cognitive Mechanisms of Executive Agency -- 6 The Emotional Control of Behavior -- 7 Mood Management: The Role of Processing Strategies in Affect Control and Affect Infusion -- 8 Ability Perception and Cardiovascular Response to Behavioral Challenge -- 9 Confirmation Bias: Cognitive Error or Adaptive Strategy of Action Control? -- 10 Intrusive Thoughts, Rumination, and Incomplete Intentions -- 11 Decision Making and Action: The Search for a Dominance Structure -- 12 Improving Efficiency of Action Control through Technical and Social Resources -- III: Threatened Personal Control: Mobilization Versus Demobilization -- 13 To Control or Not to Control -- 14 Interpersonal Power Repair in Response to Threats to Control from Dependent Others -- 15 Control Motivation, Depression, and Counterfactual Thought -- 16 Uncontrollability as a Source of Cognitive Exhaustion: Implications for Helplessness and Depression -- 17 Intellectual Helplessness: Domain Specificity, Teaching Styles, and School Achievement.