An examination of the impact of performance visualization

Measuring the impact of visualization on mental imagery: Comparing prepared versus original drawings

“…To examine such images, Ayres and Heuett (1997,1999, 2000 used participant-generated drawings to provide evidence that people exposed to visualization saw themselves in a more positive, vivid, "in control" fashion than people not exposed to visualization both over the short term (Ayres & Heuett, 1999) arid long term (Ayres & Heuett, 2000). Unfortunately, the Ayres and Heuett approach requires a substantial amount of time and effort to gather and evaluate such drawings.…”

An examination of the long term effect of performance visualization

“…One aspect of that work concerns whether interventions designed to impact images people have of themselves as communicators are indeed altered by these interventions. In this regard, Ayres and Heuett (1999) provide evidence that people exposed to performance visualization envisioned themselves in "a more positive, more vivid, and 'in control' fashion" than did high public speaking apprehensives in the control or placebo conditions" (p. 35). These findings are of considerable interest in that they offer evidence that performance visualization alters the way people envision themselves as public speakers.…”