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Embodiment as procedures: Physical cleansing changes goal priming effects.

Ping Dong1, Spike W S Lee1

  • 1School of Management, University of Toronto.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|April 7, 2017
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Physical cleansing acts as an embodied procedure for psychological separation, reducing the impact of past experiences on current goals. This research explores how wiping hands influences goal pursuit and self-perception.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Physical cleansing is known to reduce psychological burdens like guilt and dissonance.
  • The underlying mechanism for these domain-general effects remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and test an embodied account of cleansing as a psychological separation procedure.
  • To investigate how physical cleansing affects the accessibility and influence of primed goals.

Main Methods:

  • Experiments involving goal priming (achievement, saving, fitness) and physical cleansing (hand wiping).
  • Measurements included mental accessibility, behavioral expression, and judged importance of goals.
  • A moderation-of-process design was used to distinguish cleansing effects from general psychological separation.

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Main Results:

  • Hand wiping decreased the accessibility and behavioral expression of previously primed goals.
  • Cleansing amplified the importance of subsequently primed goals.
  • Psychological separation manipulations mimicked cleansing effects, but these were nullified by subsequent hand wiping.

Conclusions:

  • Cleansing functions as an embodied procedure for psychologically separating oneself from past experiences and their influence.
  • This embodied separation mechanism has significant implications for understanding goal pursuit flexibility.
  • The findings support a procedural perspective on cleansing, offering novel predictions for embodied cognition research.