The role of behavioral mind-sets in goal-directed activity: Conceptual underpinnings and empirical evidence.

By R. Wyer, Alison Jing Xu. 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Easier is not always better: The moderating role of processing type on preference fluency (2010, background): “…limited to, triggering selective attention processes (Nielsen et al; Nielsen, & Shapiro, forthcoming), triggering habitual responses (Wood, & Neal, 2009; Aarts, & Dijksterhuis, 2000), and activating procedural mindsets that guide goal pursuit on subsequent tasks (Xu, & Wyer, 2007; Wyer & Xu, 2010).”
Content and process priming: A review ☆ (2014, unknown): “Wyer and Xu (2010) propose that cognitive processes can be means of satisfying process goals, just as behavioral means satisfy consumption goals.”
Unstuck from the concrete: Carryover effects of abstract mindsets in intertemporal preferences (2010, background): “These differences in activation then affect subsequent behaviors, such as goal fulfillment, indulgent consumption, and creativity (for a review see Wyer & Xu, 2010).”
Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience (2016, background): “In addition to their consistency with goal-generalization phenomena, these effects can be interpreted in terms of the influence of a behavioral mindset (Wyer and Xu 2010; Wyer et al. 2012).”
Do pictures help? The effects of pictures and food names on menu evaluations (2017, background): “For visualizers, the chronic disposition to transform verbal information into visual formats reflects a spontaneous process of mental image construction (Bransford and Johnson, 1973; Garnham, 1981; Glenberg et al., 1987; Wyer and Xu, 2010).”
Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, background): “What comes to mind can be semantic content (e.g., Srull & Wyer, 1979), goals (e.g., Förster, Liberman, & Friedman, 2007), or procedures that tell people how to process information to make sense of experience (e.g., Oyserman & Sorensen, 2009; Schwarz, 2002, 2007; Wyer & Xu, 2010).”