Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change

By Timothy D. Wilson. 2011

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Habit formation and change (2018, background): “…such as dedicating a prominent place for fruits and vegetables on the kitchen counter, might also guide people into rip currents [57], potentially leading to a cascade of psychological changes that maintain new behaviors, including identity [58] and physical changes such as weight loss [59].”
Math Anxiety: Past Research, Promising Interventions, and a New Interpretation Framework (2018, background): “The students who experienced this short intervention had higher course grades and retention rates relative to the control group, suggesting that the messaging may have helped redirect them toward a more adaptive interpretation, or “story re-editing,” of the struggles they suffered during their 1st y”
Mindsets: A View From Two Eras (2019, methodology): “com Wilson, T. D. (2011). Redirect: The surprising new science of psychological change.”
Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior (2018, background): “Through self-affirmation interventions, individuals reinforce their psychological self-integrity by manifesting and reaffirming values of importance for them (Garcia & Cohen, 2013; Wilson, 2011; Yeager &Walton, 2011).”
The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, background): “Our proposed intervention built on the story-editing approach, which posits that people can redirect their narratives about themselves to lead to lasting behavioral changes (Wilson, 2011).”
Persistence (2014, unknown): “People use “schemas” (Ashmore & Del Boca, 1981) to make sense of ambiguous information (Fiske & Linville, 1980; Hastie, 1981; Rumelhart & Ortony, 1976; Taylor & Crocker, 1981; Wilson, 2011).”
A scalable goal-setting intervention closes both the gender and ethnic minority achievement gap (2015, background): “When they are, meta-analyses indicate that their positive effects range from small to moderate (Robbins et al., 2009), and a small minority have a lasting impact on students’ academic performance (Wilson, 2011).”
Preventing Symptoms of Depression by Teaching Adolescents That People Can Change (2015, background): “…effective than extensive counseling sessions for individuals coping with trauma (Pennebaker, 2004), and a 7-min writing exercise can halt the year-over-year decrease in marital satisfaction (Finkel, Slotter, Luchies, Walton, & Gross, 2013; for many more examples, see Walton, 2014, or Wilson, 2011).”
From Shattered Goals to Meaning in Life: Life Crafting in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “As it seems that the timing of interventions is crucial (Wilson, 2011), this may be particularly useful when people experience a loss of meaning.”
Declines in efficacy of anti-bullying programs among older adolescents: Theory and a three-level meta-analysis (2015, methodology): “techniques—that is, techniques that “nudge” people's behavior or that “redirect” their thinking (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008; Wilson, 2011; also see Yeager & Walton, 2011), but these are under-utilized in existing programs (for a rare study using state-of-the-art behavior change tactics, see Paluck & Sh”
The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. (2014, background): “…construal: the actor’s subjective perception; even if the objective environment remains constant, the subjective experience of it can be changed through intervention long after the intervention has receded in time and memory (Caspi & Moffitt 1995, Walton & Cohen 2011, Wilson 2011).”
Mental Health Smartphone Apps: Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Future Developments (2016, unknown): “Wilson’s [246] story-editing technique can be applied to apps to enhance engagement [5].”