How do implementation intentions promote goal attainment? A test of component processes

By Thomas Llewelyn Webb, P. Sheeran. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Education for sustainable development beyond attitude change (2009, background): “In part, this increase in behavior is attributable to memory cuing provided by the implementation plan (Webb and Sheeran, 2007).”
Promoting habit formation (2013, methodology): “In theory, the behaviour then proceeds automatically in a similar way to a habit (Webb & Sheeran, 2007) although, in contrast to habits, implementation intentions are only effective when the superordinate goal towards which the plan was aimed continues to be endorsed (Orbell & Verplanken, 2010;…”
Why Ethical Consumers Don’t Walk Their Talk: Towards a Framework for Understanding the Gap Between the Ethical Purchase Intentions and Actual Buying Behaviour of Ethically Minded Consumers (2010, background): “is a mental state where the relinquishing of conscious behavioural control results in the individual switching behaviour from effortful to effortless, as it frees the cognitive capacity of the individual (Gollwitzer, 1999; Webb and Sheeran, 2007).”
Self-efficacy Feelings Moderate Implementation Intention Effects (2010, background): “These mediating processes certainly qualify as important prerequisites; only if these processes run smoothly can strong implementation intention effects be expected (eg, Aarts, Dijksterhuis, & Midden, 1999 ; Webb & Sheeran, 2007 , 2008 ).”
Implementation Intentions Facilitate Response Inhibition in Children with ADHD (2008, background): “efficient, and no longer requires conscious intent (e.g., Brandstaetter, Lengfelder, & Gollwitzer, 2001; Sheeran, Webb, & Gollwitzer, 2005; Webb & Sheeran, 2007 ).”
Responding to subliminal cues: Do if-then plans facilitate action preparation and initiation without conscious intent? (2009, background): “As a consequence, the critical cue is more easily detected, readily attended to, and successfully remembered (e.g., Aarts, Dijksterhuis, & Midden, 1999; Achtziger, Bayer, & Gollwitzer, under review; Parks-Stamm, Gollwitzer, & Oettingen , 2007; Webb & Sheeran, 2007).”
Effective regulation of affect: An action control perspective on emotion regulation (2012, background): “Since Aarts et al. a number of studies have demonstrated heightened cue accessibility (e.g., Parks-Stamm, Gollwitzer & Oettingen, 2007; Webb & Sheeran, 2007, 2008) and the consequent improved detection of good opportunities to act.”
Impulsive versus reflective influences on health behavior: a theoretical framework and empirical review (2008, background): “This research indicates the existence of automatized forms of self-regulation such as an automatic link between a tempting stimulus and an overriding restraint goal (Fishbach et al, 2003 ) or an automatic link between critical situational cues and concrete goal-directed responses (implementation in”
Self-regulation of consumer decision making and behavior: The role of implementation intentions (2009, positive): “Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that cue accessibility and the strength ofthe cue-response link together explained the impact of implementation intention formation on goal attainment (Webb & Sheeran, 2007, 2008).”