Thinking of you: nonconscious pursuit of interpersonal goals associated with relationship partners.

By Gráinne M. Fitzsimons, John A. Bargh. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. (2006, result): “…of a previous experiment (Hamilton, Katz, & Leirer, 1980) in which participants had formed conscious intentions to memorize or form an impression (for equivalent findings, see Aarts, Gollwitzer, & Hassin, 2004; Bargh, Gollwitzer , Lee-Chai, Barndollar, & Trö tschel, 2001; Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003).”
Transformational and Transactional Leadership and Followers’ Achievement Goals (2013, background): “Further, people may hold goals for the sake of a relationship, and goals can be activated by the mental or physical presence of relationship partners (Fitzsimons and Bargh 2003; Shah 2003).”
Optimizing assurance: the risk regulation system in relationships. (2006, background): “Social cognition scholars also argue that strategic goals followed in relationships, such as cooperativeness or achievement, are activated when significant other representations are primed (Baldwin, 1992; Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003; Shah, 2003).”
How Emotion Shapes Behavior: Feedback, Anticipation, and Reflection, Rather Than Direct Causation (2007, neutral): “In similar work by Fitzsimons and Bargh (2003), participants who wanted to make their mothers proud responded to a priming method that activated the concept of mother with better performance on verbal task relative to primed participants who did not have the goal of making their mothers proud.”
Getting Ahead of the Joneses: When Equality Increases Conspicuous Consumption among Bottom-Tier Consumers (2011, methodology): “Instead, we relied on existing research showing that people are more likely to engage in cooperative behaviors when primed with a “friend” concept than when primed with a “coworker” concept (Fitzsimons and Bargh 2003).”
Self-regulation and the executive function: The self as controlling agent. (2007, background): “…who believed that their mothers would be pleased by their academic achievement, priming by stimuli related to their mothers led to improved performance on a verbal achievement task compared to participants who did not associate their mothers with academic achievement (Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003).”
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution (2020, background): “From a young age, people coordinate actions and adopt each other’s goals (e.g., Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003; Aarts et al., 2004; Sebanz et al., 2006; Shteynberg & Galinsky, 2011; Walton et al., 2012; Butler & Walton, 2013).”
Content and process priming: A review ☆ (2014, neutral): “For example, thinking about a friend (i.e., semantic content) made people more willing to help an experimenter owing to the indirect priming of cooperation (i.e., goal content) (Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003).”
Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass (2012, background): “In a similar vein, Fitzsimons and Bargh (2003) found that priming different types of relationship partners (e.g., best friend or mother vs. coworker) produced prime-consistent behavior such as helping.”
Between Two Brands: A Goal Fluency Account of Brand Evaluation (2006, background): “We then describe how brands are represented in memory, followed by a discussion on how brands and the goals they service may be primed or suppressed as a result of prior exposure to a related brand.”
The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “Whereas the Fitzsimons & Bargh (2003) findings suggest that significant others activate goals we often have when we are with those significant others, Shah (2003) found that significant others can also activate goals that they chronically have for us.”
When Good Brands Do Bad (2004, background): “Such research would ideally specify the contract terms that govern each relationship type including, for example, relationship goals, behavioral norms, and rules for satisfaction assessment (Argyle 1986; Fitzsimmons and Bargh 2003).”
Behavioral cues to others’ motivation and goal pursuits: The perception of effort facilitates goal inference and contagion (2007, result): “Similar to studies on nonconscious goal pursuit (e.g., Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003), this request represents an opportunity to attain the goal of helping.”
Beyond priming effects: The role of positive affect and discrepancies in implicit processes of motivation and goal pursuit (2005, background): “However, Fitzsimons and Bargh (2003) interpreted similar effects on helping behaviour as resulting from goal priming (see also Custers et al., 2005).”
The influence of abstract and concrete mindsets on anticipating and guiding others' self-regulatory efforts ☆ (2004, background): “Features of situations can directly activate goal representations (e.g., Bargh, Gollwitzer, Lee-Chai, Barndollar , & Tr€ otschel, 2001; Fitzsimons & Bargh, 2003).”