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Visualization For Increasing Health Intentions: Enhanced Effects Following A Health Message And When Using A First-Person Perspective, Laura Rennie, Ayse K. Uskul, Catherine Adams, Katherine Appleton
Visualization For Increasing Health Intentions: Enhanced Effects Following A Health Message And When Using A First-Person Perspective, Laura Rennie, Ayse K. Uskul, Catherine Adams, Katherine Appleton
Ayse K Uskul
The present research explored whether visualising engaging in a health behaviour resulted in increased intentions to engage in that behaviour, when combined with an informational health message. Further, the effects of the visual perspective (first-person vs. third-person) used to visualise the health behaviour were explored. In an online questionnaire study employing a 2 × 3 between-participants experimental design, participants (N = 532) read vs. did not read an informational health message about the benefits of increasing fruit consumption, then visualised (from first-person vs. third-person perspective) vs. did not visualise themselves increasing their fruit consumption. Intentions to increase fruit consumption were …
The Role Of Self-Aspects In Emotions Elicited By Threats To Physical Health, Ayse K. Uskul, Michaela Hynie
The Role Of Self-Aspects In Emotions Elicited By Threats To Physical Health, Ayse K. Uskul, Michaela Hynie
Ayse K Uskul
In two studies, we examined the relationship between self-aspects and socially engaging and socially disengaging emotions elicited by imagined and real physical health problems. In Study 1, participants imagined themselves experiencing a health problem described in a hypothetical scenario and rated the extent to which they would experience a list of emotions. The experience of socially engaging emotions such as shame and embarrassment was predicted by the endorsement of collective self. In Study 2, participants recalled a past health problem and emotions they experienced during its course. Again, collective self predicted the extent to which people mentioned socially engaging emotions …