Published March 30, 2020 | Version 1.0
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From Observation to Inspiration? Why the Goal-Contagion Effect is Overestimated

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  • 1. Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz

Contributors

  • 1. Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz
  • 2. Department of Psychology, Saarland University

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Just observing a fellow human being can inspire us to strive for the same goal as the other person. Such goal contagion has been shown to occur because one first automatically infers the goal on an implicit level and then adopts it for oneself (Aarts, Gollwitzer, & Hassin, 2004). In this dissertation, my collaborators and I investigated this goal contagion effect ...

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Preprint: 10.31219/osf.io/xydgf (DOI)
Journal article: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00545 (DOI)
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Proposal: https://osf.io/8qtfk/ (URL)

Funding

FWF Austrian Science Fund
Inspirational others: Goal activation by social comparisons P 28393