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Mental Contrasting Changes the Meaning of Reality [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013 Mental contrasting of a desired future with the present reality strengthens goal pursuit when expectations of success are high, and weakens goal pursuit when expectations of success are low. We hypothesized that mental contrasting effects on selective goal pursuit are mediated by a change in the meaning of the present reality as an obstacle towards ...
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Mental Contrasting in DanceSport: The Champion’s Mindset
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2019Abstract The self-regulation strategy of mental contrasting of a desired future with the obstacles of current reality has been shown to spur effort and successful performance. We investigated the spontaneous use of mental contrasting in the context of professional DanceSport. Higher- and lower-performing DanceSport athlete couples elaborated on their
Timothy J Valshtein, Gabriele Oettingen
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Spontaneous Mental Contrasting and Selective Goal Pursuit
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2013Mental contrasting a desired future with reality is a self-regulation strategy that fosters selective goal pursuit; people pursue goals for which they have high expectations of success, and let go of those for which they have low expectations. Indulging in the future, dwelling on the reality, or contrasting the reality with the future lead to ...
Timur Sevincer, Gabriele Oettingen
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Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality
Journal of Personnel Psychology, 2010Mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality leads to expectancy-dependent goal commitments, whereas focusing on the desired future only makes people commit to goals regardless of their high or low expectations for success. In the present brief intervention we randomly assigned middle-level managers (N = 52) to two conditions ...
Gabriele Oettingen, Doris Mayer
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Taking Responsibility for Others and Use of Mental Contrasting
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020Mentally contrasting a desired future with present reality fosters selective goal pursuit: People pursue feasible desired futures and let go from unfeasible ones. We investigated whether people are more inclined to spontaneously use mental contrasting when they feel responsibility.
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Mental Contrasting and Transfer of Energization
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2013Mental contrasting a desired future with present reality is a self-regulation strategy that fosters energization in line with a person’s expectations of successfully attaining the desired future. We investigated whether physiological energization (measured by systolic blood pressure) elicited by mental contrasting a desired future of solving a given ...
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Evidence that Mental Contrasting Reduces Health Information Avoidance
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2023Abstract Background Although learning health information is beneficial for physical well-being, many people opt to avoid learning this information due to its potentially threatening nature.
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Ego Depletion and the Use of Mental Contrasting
Motivation and Emotion, 2015Mentally contrasting a desired future with present reality leads to goal pursuit in accordance with people’s expectations of realizing the desired future. Because mental contrasting is a purposeful self-regulation strategy that involves mental effort and complex information processing we suspected that people who are depleted or mentally fatigued are ...
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Mental Contrasting and Goal Commitment: The Mediating Role of Energization
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2009Mentally contrasting a desired future with present reality is a self-regulation strategy that leads to goal commitment in line with a person's expectations of success. One possible mediator variable of these effects is level of energization. In Study 1, energization assessed by physiological measures was found to mediate the effect of mental ...
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Improving diabetes self-management by mental contrasting
Psychology & Health, 2013Diabetes patients often fail to adhere to self-management activities, such as losing weight by exercising and dieting. The present study tested the efficacy of a minimalist intervention consisting of only the self-regulation strategy 'mental contrasting' (Oettingen, G. (2000). Expectancy effects on behavior depend on self-regulatory thought.
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