Expectancy Effects on Behavior Depend on Self-Regulatory Thought

By G. Oettingen. 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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Learning from yesterday's mistakes to fix tomorrow's problems: When functional counterfactual thinking and psychological distance collide (2012, unknown): “反実仮想：一種のメンタルシミュレーション(Byrne, 2005; Roese, 1997) 「if」が特定の行動、「then」が想像される結果：if-thenの形新しい行動を実行したり、行動を減らす状況を想像して精神的に操作（Roese＆Olson, 1993）、事実よりも良い/悪い別の結果と比べる（Markman, Gavanski, Sherman, ＆ McMullen, 1993）機能的な反実仮想は、自己規制に役立つ（Epstude＆Roese, 2008）上向きの反実仮想をすると、行動が変わり、パフォーマンスが向上する内容に中立/特有の 2つの経路を介している内”
Strategies of setting and implementing goals: Mental contrasting and implementation intentions (2010, background): “Thus, when people engage in mental contrasting and have high expectations of success, they consider a course of action 120 PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS toward goal attainment and make plans to overcome anticipated obstacles.”
Future thought and behaviour change (2012, background): “…and regarding diverse subject matter: for example, getting to know an attractive stranger and finding a balance between work and family life (Oettingen, 2000), studying abroad and acquiring a second language (Oettingen, Hönig, & Gollwitzer, 2000; Oettingen et al., 2001; Oettingen et al.,…”
A temporal analysis of how entrepreneurial goal intentions, positive fantasies, and action planning affect starting a new venture and when the effects wear off (2014, background): “Mentally contrasting the positive fantasies with the current state and considering up-coming jolts or setbacks should reverse the negative effects of positive fantasies (Oettingen, 2000).”
Pragmatic Prospection: How and Why People Think about the Future (2016, background): “Oettingen (2000, 2012) proposed a model of fantasy realization focusing on pragmatic prospection thought and motivation that specifies a self-regulation strategy named mental contrasting of the future and current reality.”
Intervening to Enhance Proactivity in Organizations: Improving the Present or Changing the Future (2018, background): “Research on fantasy realization theory (Oettingen, 1999, 2000) shows that positive fantasies about the future need to be contrasted with negative reflections on reality impeding this future.”
Self-regulation of goal setting: turning free fantasies about the future into binding goals. (2001, background): “As in previous research on fantasy realization (Oettingen, 2000), we analyzed the degree to which a goal is experienced as binding in terms of the strength of goal commitment.”
The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking (2008, background): “Most important, expectancies can induce a strong desire to obtain a goal and a strong goal commitment (Oettingen, 2000; Oettingen et al., 2001; Oettingen & Mayer, 2002).”
Self‐regulation strategies improve self‐discipline in adolescents: benefits of mental contrasting and implementation intentions (2011, background): “Mental contrasting: a self-regulatory strategy for goal setting The model of fantasy realisation (Oettingen, 2000; Oettingen et al., 2001) delineates three different routes to goal commitment: indulging, dwelling and mental contrasting.”
From Strategy to Action: Transforming Organizational Goals into Organizational Behavior (2018, unknown): “…contrasting method helps decision-makers to set goals that are both desirable and feasible and consists in ‘contrasting a desirable future with impeding reality’ in order to ‘turn the desired future into something to be achieved and reality into something to be changed’ (Oettingen 2000, p. 104).”
Weakness of the will: Is a quick fix possible? (2014, background): “Mental contrasting (Oettingen 2000; Oettingen et al. 2001) implies juxtaposing fantasies about desired future outcomes with obstacles of present reality.”
When does proactivity have a cost? Motivation at work moderates the effects of proactive work behavior on employee job strain (2017, background): “undermine effective self-regulation such that when individuals fantasize about having achieved a proactive goal they may no longer perceive the necessity to act (Oettingen, 2000).”
Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes (2006, background): “, mental contrasting) is a particularly eVective strategy for discovering powerful barriers and hindrances that stand in the way of realizing desired outcomes (Oettingen, 2000; Oettingen et al., 2001).”
Effective self-regulation of goal attainment (2000, background): “If developmental tasks (e.g., acquiring basic skills in school; Havighurst, 1948/1972; Oettingen, 2000 ) hold great promise and are perceived as being feasible, children as young as 10}12 years old pro"t from mentally contrasting their wishful thinking with impeding reality.”
The emergence of goal pursuit: Mental contrasting connects future and reality (2014, background): “, observed effort, actual achievement), these studies found the described pattern of results, no matter whether the indicators of goal pursuit were assessed via selfreport or observations, or whether immediate effort or sustained effort over weeks was needed (Kappes, Oettingen, & Pak, 2012; Kappes, ”
In search of the unique aspects of hope: Pinning our hopes on positive emotions, future-oriented thinking, hard times, and other people (2002, background): “Mental contrasting has been shown (Oettingen, 2000; Oettingen, Pak, & Schnetter, 2001) to effectively translate high expectations to realize the desired future (i.e., high agency-related hope beliefs) into strong goal commitments in the laboratory with college students (e.g., to get to know a…”