Making a good decision: value from fit.

By E. Tory Higgins. American Psychologist, 2000

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

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The Context-Sensitive Future Self: Possible Selves Motivate in Context, Not Otherwise (2015, background): “…gap, in the current studies we build on situated theories of motivation including situated cognition (e.g., Smith & Semin, 2004), value from fit (Higgins, 2000), and identity-based motivation (IBM) theories (Oyserman, in press) to predict that the motivational power of the future self is…”
Value from hedonic experience and engagement. (2006, background): “This is, indeed, the case (see Higgins, 1997, 2000; Higgins & Spiegel, 2004).”
Group-based self-regulation: The effects of regulatory focus (2008, background): “An additional development in this family of theories is the regulatory fit hypothesis (Higgins, 2000), suggesting that the overall hedonic intensity of events, behaviours, and objects depends on the phenomenological fit (i.e., the conscious or unconscious experience of fit) between a specific event…”
Testing Fit Patterns with Polynomial Regression Models (2015, background): “Furthermore, whole theories are built on the notion of optimal fit, like personenvironment fit theory (Kristof-Brown & Billsberry, 2013) or regulatory fit theory (Higgins, 2000).”
Success/Failure Feedback, Expectancies, and Approach/Avoidance Motivation: How Regulatory Focus Moderates Classic Relations (2001, background): “Idson, Liberman, and Higgins (2000) proposed that agerness in attaining a promotion focus goal is mainta ollowing success and is reduced following failure, whe igilance in attaining a prevention focus goal is mainta ollowing failure and is reduced following success.”
Transformational-transactional leadership styles and followers’ regulatory focus: Fit reduces followers’ turnover intentions. (2011, background): “That is, individuals goal-striving in a way that sustains their self-regulatory preference, a phenomenon known as regulatory fit, feel ‘‘right’’ about what they are doing, and attach more value and importance to the activity (Higgins, 2000).”
In the Eye of the Beholder: How Regulatory Focus and Self-Efficacy Interact in Influencing Opportunity Recognition (2011, neutral): “Thus, although called for previously (Higgins, 2000; Wood, 2005; see Bryant 2007), research that systematically investigates both self-regulatory mechanisms’ effects concurrently is very scant (studies outside the field of entrepreneurship include Keller, 2006; Schokker, Links, Luttik, and Hagedoorn”
Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes (2006, background): “Higgins (2000) demo nstrates that peop le who pursue their go als using means that have a natural fit to the content of the goal have a better chance of goal attainment.”
A Review of Multilevel Regulatory Focus in Organizations (2015, methodology): “Research findings, however, suggest that only promotion focus elicits passion because it more closely aligns with positive affective states (Idson, Liberman, & Higgins, 2000).”
How Regulatory Fit Affects Value in Consumer Choices and Opinions (2006, methodology): “Consistent with research on regulatory focus theory (Brockner et al. 2002; Idson and Higgins 2000), two scores were tabulated for each participant: an actual–ideal match score and an actual–ought match score.”
Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach ☆ (2017, background): “Intra-psychological phenomena are an important part of such processes (see e.g. Cardon et al., 2012; Welpe et al., 2012 on the role of emotions), with considerable impact on outcome judgments (Maner and Gerend, 2007; Higgins, 2000; Watson et al., 1999).”