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Previous research demonstrates that emotions play a critical role in goal pursuit and achievement. However, this research assumes that the explicit emotions that individuals report accurately reflect the implicit affective experiences that underlie the motivation of individuals. In addition, past work assumes that all individuals experience the same pre and post goal-related emotion, despite individual differences in the ability to regulate emotion and behaviour (Kuhl, 1994). The present research challenges these assumptions. Specifically, pre-goal and post-goal states are manipulated through participants’ reflections on their idiographic goals, and both explicit (the Positive and Negative Affect Test (PANAS)) and implicit measures (the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT)) of affect were used to examine closely the affective associates of pre-goal and post-goal states.