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When thinking about goals undermines goal pursuit
- Authors
- Fishbach, Ayelet; Choi, Jinhee
- Issue Date
- 7월-2012
- Publisher
- ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
- Keywords
- Goals; Motivation; Self-regulation; Extrinsic/intrinsic; Instrumentality
- Citation
- ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES, v.118, no.2, pp.99 - 107
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- Journal Title
- ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
- Volume
- 118
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 99
- End Page
- 107
- ISSN
- 0749-5978
- Abstract
- We explore how attending to the goals an activity achieves (i.e., its instrumentality) impacts the motivation to pursue the activity. We propose that the focus on the activity's instrumentality renders the activity more valuable yet its experience less positive. Because experience is mainly salient while pursuing (vs. planning) an activity, attending to the activity's instrumentality increases the intention to pursue the activity but decreases how persistently individuals pursue it. We document this impact of attending to goals on increased intentions but decreased persistence on various activities, from a exercising on a treadmill (Study 1) and creating origami (Study 2) to dental flossing (Study 3) and practicing yoga (Study 4). (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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