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Setting Lower Limits High: The Role Of Boundary Goals In Achievement Motivation., Katherine Corker
Setting Lower Limits High: The Role Of Boundary Goals In Achievement Motivation., Katherine Corker
Katherine S. Corker
Boundary goals specify the minimum performance level that an individual must attain to subjectively experience success. The present research integrates boundary goals into the hierarchical model of achievement motivation (A. J. Elliot, 2006) by positing that boundary goals are a subgoal in the goal hierarchy. The authors predicted that performance approach goals would be associated with higher boundary goals, whereas performance avoidance goals would be associated with lower boundary goals. The authors further predicted that boundary goals would mediate the association between achievement goals and performance, independent of other target goals (i.e., levels of aspiration). The authors also evaluated whether …
A Self-Regulatory Framework For Message Framing, Katherine Corker
A Self-Regulatory Framework For Message Framing, Katherine Corker
Katherine S. Corker
After several decades of research on message framing, there is still no clear and consistent answer to the question of when emphasizing positive or negative outcomes in a persuasive message will be most effective. Whereas early framing research considered the type of recommended behavior (health-affirming vs. illness-detection) to be the determining factor, more recent research has looked to individual differences to answer this question. In this paper, we incorporate both approaches under a single framework. The framework describes the multiple self-regulatory levels at which a message can be framed and predicts when framing at each level will be most effective. …
High Quality Direct Replications Matter: Response To Williams, Katherine Corker
High Quality Direct Replications Matter: Response To Williams, Katherine Corker
Katherine S. Corker
We respond to Williams’ (2014) comments on our three failures to replicate of Study 2 from Williams and Bargh (2008). We clarify our conclusions on this topic, making clear that although the results of our studies cast doubt on the specific effect reported in Williams and Bargh (i.e., that instant hot and cold packs influence choice of reward for self or friend), a more complete understanding of the embodiment hypothesis in question requires consideration of relevant conceptual replications. Accordingly, we consider the strength of the evidence in the conceptual replications that Williams identifies and find that small samples appear to …
Conscientiousness In The Classroom: A Process Explanation., Katherine Corker
Conscientiousness In The Classroom: A Process Explanation., Katherine Corker
Katherine S. Corker
Although the research literature has established that Conscientiousness predicts task performance across a variety of achievement contexts (e.g., ; ), comparatively less is known about the processes that underlie these relations. To the latter end, the current research examines effortful strategies and achievement goals as mediating factors that might explain why people with higher levels of Conscientiousness are predicted to reach higher levels of academic performance. In a longitudinal study, 347 college students completed measures of personality and achievement goals at the beginning of the class, followed by measures of effortful strategies multiple times throughout the semester. Results support the …
The Development Of Achievement Goals Throughout College, Katherine Corker
The Development Of Achievement Goals Throughout College, Katherine Corker
Katherine S. Corker
Emerging adulthood, defined for many by the college years, is an active period of personality development; less is known about goal change during these years. We investigated stability and change in the 2 × 2 model of achievement goals over 4 years (N = 527). We evaluated rank-order stability and mean-level change, and testedgoal coupling hypotheses—the idea that early changes in goals predict later change in other goals—using multivariate latent difference score models. Achievement goals showed moderate rank-order stability over 4 years. Three of four goals demonstrated small normative declines, excepting performance approach goals. A change in mastery approach goals …
Replication Of ‘‘Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth’’ By Williams And Bargh, Katie Corker
Replication Of ‘‘Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth’’ By Williams And Bargh, Katie Corker
Katherine S. Corker
We report the results of three high-powered, independent replications of Study 2 from Williams and Bargh (2008). Participants evaluated hot or cold instant therapeutic packs before choosing a reward for participation that was framed as a prosocial (i.e., treat for a friend) or self-interested reward (i.e., treat for the self). Williams and Bargh predicted that evaluating the hot pack would lead to a higher probability of making a prosocial choice compared to evaluating the cold pack. We did not replicate the effect in any individual laboratory or when considering the results of the three replications together (total N = 861). …