Summary: Sixty-six university students participated in a computer-based training program on motivational learning strategies. The program dealt with a strategy to generate a learning intention by identifying the personal (task) value of information which ...
This paper is based on the notion that desire represents an important motivational aspect of the decision-making process. Thus, we examined the hypotheses that desire (1) predicts behavioral intentions and (2) mediates the effects of theory of planned ...
Control of Cognition and ActionSummary: Major research efforts of German Psychology at the beginning of the 20th century focussed on the control of cognition. The most relevant empirical and theoretical analyses were published by Müller and Pilzecker (...
Intention as a Psychic Process: Search for Traces in General Psychological ResearchSummary: According to Franz Brentano (1874) the main task of psychology is to examine the mind during the consideration of objects, intentions, and goals. However, during ...
Zusammenfassung. Wird visuell-räumliche Reizinformation automatisch verarbeitet? Psychologische Experimente scheinen das zu belegen. Reize, die plötzlich am Rand des Blickfelds erscheinen, ziehen die Aufmerksamkeit unwillkürlich auf den Ort ihres ...
The influence of ethical beliefs on organ donation behavior: An extended model of organ donationAbstract. Based on the theory of reasoned action an extended model of organ donation (EMO) has been developed, which includes ethical considerations and ...
Non-linear relationship between intentions and behavior: A longitudinal study investigating physical activity and its social-cognitive predictorsAbstract. Many individuals are not as physically active as recommended or as intended. The aim of the current ...
Abstract. Compensatory health beliefs (CHBs), defined as belief that an unhealthy behavior can be compensated by engaging in another healthy behavior, are negatively predictive of health-behavior change intentions ...
The action-theoretical perspective: A frame of reference for research and application in sport psychologyAbstract. Starting with some critical reflections on the shortcomings of traditional psychological concepts and schools of thought, the main ...
The status of emotions in the planning and implementation of health behaviorAbstract. Recent research reveals a repeated failure to integrate emotional processes into motivation models - particularly in models to explain health behavior. The present ...
Abstract: Open Science is an important development in science, not only to overcome the replication crisis or crisis of confidence but also to openly and transparently describe research processes to enable replication and reproduction. ...
The phrase becoming a science, as applied to the history of psychology, is at best a tendentious formulation of the status quaestionis. It presumes quite clearly that the direction of development has, indeed, been toward becoming more scientific. This ...
Comparisons of 584 parasuicides with a verbalized intention to die and 341 parasuicides with other intentions were made on a number of sociodemographic and clinical/psychological variables. The results revealed that patients with a verbalized intention to ...
The predictive value of verbally expressed intentions of parasuicide was studied in 925 patients admitted after deliberate self-harm to one of the health care facilities in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Repetition of the suicidal act was studied ...
Abstract. Research has shown that the prevalence of deliberate self-harm (DSH) is higher in adolescents than in adults, but little is known about other differences. In this study we compare adolescent and adult DSH-patients regarding factors contributing ...
Abstract. Five variables were investigated in the evaluation of Suicide Prevention Weeks (SPW) held in 1999, 2000, and 2001 in Québec, Canada: exposure to the campaign, previous suicide ideation, knowledge, attitudes, and intentions. After the year 2000 ...
The objective was to examine gender differences in choice of method and suicidal intent among persons referred to a suicide prevention center. A total of 351 consecutive patients who had attempted suicide were interviewed using the European Parasuicide ...
Within a traditional planned-behavior framework, the conditions remain ambiguous under which moral norms add to the overall intention to act. In this paper, we aim to provide insights into the circumstances that foster the impact of moral norms. Based on ...
This internet study investigated the effect of individual differences in cognitive avoidance on the persuasive impact of threat communications. A total of 289 participants completed a measure of dispositional cognitive avoidance and read either a high- or ...
Abstract. A series of distinct event-related potentials (ERPs) have been recorded from the scalp of human subjects as they switch from one task to another. It is possible that task switching may depend on different mechanisms depending on whether the ...
The prepared reflex (PR) metaphor (Woodworth, R. S. (1938). Experimental psychology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston) suggests that stimulus–response (S–R) instructions held in working memory (WM) can lead to autonomous response activation even ...
Completing a goal directed behavior in a safe and efficient manner requires that a perceiver-actor is sensitive to the various constraints on performing that behavior and adjust his or her movements accordingly. When attempting to pass under a barrier, ...
Abstract. Knowledge of intention and outcome is integral to making judgments of responsibility, blame, and causality. Yet, little is known about the effect of conflicting intentions and outcomes on these judgments. In a series of four ...
Abstract. Priming effects in the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) have been explained by a misattribution of prime-related affect to neutral targets. However, the measure has been criticized for being susceptible to intentional use of ...
Abstract. Younger (21–39 years) and older (63–90 years) adults were presented with scenarios illustrating either harmful or helpful actions. Each scenario provided information about the agent’s intention, either neutral or valenced (...
The present study explores the role of intentions, habits, and addictive tendencies in people’s video game use. Although both habits and addictive tendencies may determine higher amounts of video game use, the present study examines whether the impact of ...
Psychological approaches often conceptualize “free will” as self-determined decision-making. However, the functional mechanisms potentially underlying volitional freedom or its limitations have barely been elaborated. Starting from a functional definition ...
After outlining why the notion of conscious control of action matters to us and after distinguishing different challenges to that notion, the contribution focuses on the challenge posed by the literature on unconscious goal pursuit. Based on a conceptual ...
The aim of the present study was to examine the relations between an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the intention to quit smoking in light of Construal Level Theory (CLT). The basic reasoning of CLT is that psychological distance ...