Mental Contrasting and Transfer of Energization  

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Sevincer, A. Timur ; Busatta, P. Daniel ; Oettingen, Gabriele

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 40 no. 2 (Feb. 2014), page 139-152.
Topik: Mental Contrasting; Expectations; Energization; Effort; Performance
Fulltext: PSPB_40_02_139.pdf (663.84KB)

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Mental 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 task transfers to effort in an unrelated task. As predicted, mental contrasting a desired future of excelling in an intelligence test (Study 1) and of writing an excellent essay (Study 2) triggered changes in energization that translated into physical effort in squeezing a handgrip (Study 1) and translated into mental effort in writing a get-well letter (Study 2). Results suggest that mental contrasting of solving one task triggers energization that may fuel effort for performing an unrelated task. Implications for intervention research are discussed.

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