Grounding motivation for behavior change

Papies, Esther K.; Barsalou, Lawrence W.; Claassen, Maria Almudena; Davis, Tess; Farrar, Stephanie; Gauthier, Elodie; Rodger, Amy; Tatar, Betül; Wehbe, Lara; Werner, Johanna

doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2022.04.002

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“…The functional characteristic of perception-action fusion is broadly consistent with notions of ideomotor action (Carpenter, 1874;James, 1890), common coding (Hommel et al, 2001), and grounded cognition (Papies et al, 2022). Although different in their particulars, each of these notions presumes some kind of shared representation of perception and action.…”

Section: From Intentions To Action 21supporting

confidence: 56%

“…Indeed, around half of people's intentions are destined to end this way (Sheeran & Webb, 2016). This gap between intentions and behavior emerges in virtually every domain of human activity and has persisted despite sustained efforts to close it (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2011;Papies et al, 2022;Sheeran & Webb, 2016). As such, the intention-behavior gap may be regarded as one of the greatest unresolved problems in psychology today.…”

Section: From Intentions To Action: An Integrative Review Of Four Dec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Affective energization of intuitive behavior control means that this form of behavioral regulation is closely aligned with the person's motivational states, especially activation of the reward system. For instance, mental simulations of a reward can be expected to activate intuitive behavior control (Papies et al, 2022). Intuitive behavior control will further come into play when people are engaging in intrinsically rewarding, pleasant activities.…”

Section: Affective Energizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From intentions to action: An integrative review of action control theory and research

Koole,

Jostmann,

Baumann

2023

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Section: From Intentions To Action 21supporting

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Jostmann,

Baumann

2023

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Again, implementation is at the core of health psychologists' work, and the relatively young discipline of implementation science originated from health research. Climate change mitigation is to a large degree a problem of behaviour, and of implementing behaviour change insights to affect the behaviour of individuals, be it as private citizens, organisational citizens, policy makers, or business or political leaders (Nielsen, Nicholas, et al, 2021;Papies et al, 2022). Hence, health psychologists' implementation science expertise could be extremely useful in the efforts to cut GHG emissions rapidly and deeply across all sectors of society.…”

Section: Intervention Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Papies¹,

Nielsen²,

Soares³

2023

Preprint

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Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food insecurity, pathogenic diseases, societal destabilisation, and armed conflict. Climate change dwarfs all other challenges studied by health psychologists. The greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change disproportionately originate from the actions of wealthy populations in the Global North and are tied to excessive energy use and overconsumption driven by the pursuit of economic growth. Addressing this crisis requires significant societal transformations and individual behaviour change. Most of these changes will benefit not only the stability of the climate but will yield significant public health co-benefits. Because of their unique expertise and skills, health psychologists are urgently needed in crafting climate change mitigation responses. We propose specific ways in which health psychologists at all career stages can contribute, within the spheres of research, teaching, and policy making, and within organisations and as private citizens. As health psychologists, we cannot sit back and leave climate change to climate scientists. Climate change is a health emergency that results from human behaviour; hence it is in our power to address it.

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“…Cognitive representations may be important as they can motivate and shape behaviour, often outside of conscious awareness. When examining the cognitive representations of meat-and plant-based foods, we adopted the theoretical framework of the grounded cognition theory of desire and motivated behaviour (37)(38)(39) , which proposes that during each eating or drinking episode, people store rich representations of the experience in memory. These representations can include, for example, information about the smell, taste and the texture of the food, information about the motor actions of eating it, information about the physical location, time, occasion and other people present, as well as internal states such as bodily feelings, emotions, thoughts and experiences of (dis)pleasure or enjoyment.…”

Section: A Grounded Cognition Approach To Understanding Food Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

How (not) to talk about plant-based foods: using language to support the transition to sustainable diets

Papies,

Davis,

Farrar

et al. 2023

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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Reducing meat consumption is essential to curb further climate change and limit the catastrophic environmental degradation resulting from the current global food system. However, consumers in industrialised countries are hesitant to reduce their meat intake, often because they find plant-based foods less appealing. Despite the climate emergency, eating meat is still perceived as the norm, and recommended in most national dietary guidelines. To support the transition to more sustainable diets by providing insights for increasing the appeal of plant-based foods to mainstream consumers, this review presents recent research findings on how people think and communicate about meat-based and plant-based foods. The key findings we review include: (1) while vegans think about plant-based foods in terms of enjoyable eating experiences, omnivores think about plant-based foods in terms of health, vegan identity and other abstract information that does not motivate consumption in the moment. (2) Packages of ready-meals and social media posts on Instagram present plant-based foods with fewer references to enjoyable eating experiences than meat-based foods. (3) Presenting plant-based foods with language that references enjoyable eating experiences increases their appeal, especially for habitual meat eaters. This language includes words about sensory features of the food (e.g., crunchy, creamy), eating context (e.g. pub; with family) and immediate positive consequences of eating (e.g. comforting, delicious). In contrast, the term ‘vegan’ is strongly associated with negative stereotypes. Hence, rather than referring to being vegan, meat-free or healthy, the language used for plant-based foods should refer to sensory appeal, attractive eating situations and enjoyment.

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Grounding motivation for behavior change

Cited by 16 publications

References 206 publications

From intentions to action: An integrative review of action control theory and research

From intentions to action: An integrative review of action control theory and research

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

How (not) to talk about plant-based foods: using language to support the transition to sustainable diets

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