隐喻
心理信息
心理学
感知
社会心理学
控制(管理)
目标设定
目标导向
个人发展
应用心理学
梅德林
心理治疗师
管理
哲学
语言学
神经科学
政治学
法学
经济
作者
Szu‐chi Huang,Jennifer Aaker
摘要
People pursue goals throughout their lives, and many of these attempts end happily-a goal is achieved. However, what facilitates the continuation of behaviors that are aligned with the completed goal, such as continuing to monitor food intake after completing a diet program? The results of 6 studies involving over 1,600 people across cultures and samples (executives in Africa, dieters in a 7-day food diary program, exercisers in a 14-day walking program, and college students) demonstrated that construing an achieved goal as a journey one has completed (compared with an alternative metaphor of having reached a destination, or a no-metaphor control) led to a greater likelihood of people continuing behaviors aligned with this attained goal. These findings demonstrated how shifting people's focus of a metaphor (i.e., focusing on the journey vs. the destination part of a completed path) can lead to consequentially different perceptions and behaviors. We isolated a mechanism for why people would continue goal-aligned behaviors after attaining their specific goals-enhanced perceptions of personal growth. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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