Increasing or decreasing interest in activities

The role of regulatory fit

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6202294
AutoresE Tory Higgins (0000-0003-4157-8207, Columbia University), Joseph Cesario (0000-0002-1892-4485), Nao Hagiwara (0000-0003-3933-8917), Scott Spiegel, Thane S Pittman, Thane Pittman
Ano2010
Volume98
Fascículo4
Páginas559-572
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0018833
PMID20307129
OpenAlexW3123754191
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas19

What makes people's interest in doing an activity increase or decrease? Regulatory fit theory (E. T. Higgins, 2000) provides a new perspective on this classic issue by emphasizing the relation between people's activity orientation, such as thinking of an activity as fun, and the manner of activity engagement that the surrounding situation supports. These situational factors include whether a reward for good performance, expected (Study 1) or unexpected (Study 2), is experienced as enjoyable or as serious and whether the free-choice period that measures interest in the activity is experienced as enjoyable or as serious (Study 3). Studies 1-3 found that participants were more likely to do a fun activity again when these situational factors supported a manner of doing the activity that fit the fun orientation-a reward or free-choice period framed as enjoyable. This effect was not because interest in doing an activity again is simply greater in an enjoyable than a serious surrounding situation because it did not occur, and even reversed, when the activity orientation was important rather than fun, where now a serious manner of engagement provides the fit (Study 4a and 4b)

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