Habit formation and multiple means to goal attainment: Repeated retrieval of target means causes inhibited access to competitors
Habit formation and multiple means to goal attainment: Repeated retrieval of target means causes inhibited access to competitors
复制标题
DOI：
10.1177/0146167207303948
复制
发表时间：
2007-10-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
de Vries, Nanne K.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Danner, Unna N.;Aarts, Henk;de Vries, Nanne K.
三项研究探讨了在多种手段背景下形成目标导向习惯的认知过程。预期目标激活后重复检索目标平均值会抑制相同目标的竞争平均值。在所有的研究中，参与者研究了目标-手段组合，并随后练习检索某些手段，以达到检索范式中的目标。研究1测试了不同的手段在一个目标手段验证任务的可访问性，并表明，竞争手段没有被抑制后，一个单一的检索，但只有在重复检索（三或九次）。研究2和3扩展了这些发现的手段识别任务，并表明，抑制发生在没有明确的意图或指示，以抑制竞争对手。这些抑制作用的竞争手段进行了讨论的背景下，目前的社会认知研究的过程的目标，手段网络和习惯的形成。
Three studies examined the cognitive processes underlying the formation of goal-directed habits in a multiple means context. Repeated retrieval of target means upon goal activation was expected to result in inhibition of competing means for the same goal. In all Studies, participants studied goal-means combinations and subsequently practiced the retrieval of certain means to attain the goals in a retrieval paradigm. Study 1 tested accessibility of the different means in a goal-means verification task and showed that competing means were not inhibited after a single retrieval but only upon repeated retrieval (three or nine times). Studies 2 and 3 extended these findings in a means-recognition task and demonstrated that inhibition occurred in the absence of explicit intent or instructions to suppress the competitors. These inhibitory effects of competing means are discussed against the background of current social cognition research on the processes underlying goal-means networks and the formation of habits.