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✦ LIBER ✦
To plan or not to plan? Goal achievement or interrupting the performance of mundane behaviors
✍ Scribed by Henk Aarts; Ap Dijksterhuis; Cees Midden
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
The present experiment investigated cognitive and behavioral eects of planning (i.e. forming implementation intentions) on goal pursuit during the performance of mundane behaviors. Participants received the goal to collect a coupon halfway the hall from the lab to the cafeteria. Later, they were also given the task to go from the lab to the cafeteria. Thus participants had to attain a new goal by interrupting a mundane behavior. Some participants enriched their goal with implementation intentions, others did not. Results showed that participants who formed implementation intentions were more eective in goal pursuit than the control group. Importantly, the data suggest that the eects of planning on goal completion are mediated by a heightened mental accessibility of environmental cues related to the goal completion task. Copyright
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