From Observation to Inspiration? Why the Goal-Contagion Effect is Overestimated

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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Beobachtung, Nachahmung, meta-analysis, Person, Ziel, goal priming, implicit inference, 150, goal contagion, goal pursuit, moderated mediation, Tätigkeit

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