ABSTRACT
What are the limits within which goal adoption occurs? In real life, adoption does not necessarily presuppose an explicit will. Sometimes, recipients need to read beyond the speakers' requests in order to provide them with a useful answer. Sometimes, goal adoption is spontaneous: it is not even dependent on either explicit or implicit requests. These phenomena point to the crucial issue; the contours and limits of goal adoption. Furthermore, they seem to address the puzzling question of whether adoption is possible when the would-be recipient has no goal to receive adoption. In other words, is adoption beyond the others' wishes possible?
