Moralization and self-control strategy selection.
Attention
Distraction
Moralization
Self-control
Strategy
Journal
Psychonomic bulletin & review
ISSN: 1531-5320
Titre abrégé: Psychon Bull Rev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9502924
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
accepted:
12
02
2023
medline:
7
9
2023
pubmed:
1
3
2023
entrez:
28
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To manage conflicts between temptation and commitment, people use self-control. The process model of self-control outlines different strategies for managing the onset and experience of temptation. However, little is known about the decision-making factors underlying strategy selection. Across three experiments (N = 317), we tested whether the moral valence of a commitment predicts how people advise attentional self-control strategies. In Experiments 1 and 2, people rated attentional focus strategies as significantly more effective for people tempted to break moral relative to immoral commitments, even when controlling for perceived temptation and trait self-control. Experiment 3 showed that as people perceived commitments to have more positive moral valence, they judged attentional focus strategies to be significantly more effective relative to attentional distraction strategies. Moreover, this effect was partly mediated by perceived differences in motivation. These results indicate that moralization informs decision-making processes related to self-control strategy selection.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36849699
doi: 10.3758/s13423-023-02257-7
pii: 10.3758/s13423-023-02257-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
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© 2023. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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