目标来源在承诺升级中的作用
Jong Seok Lee1, Mark Keil2, Kin Fai Ellick Wong3
1Department of Accounting & Information Management, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Experimental psychology
|December 12, 2024
概括
了解承诺的升级需要检查目标来源. 遗传的目标,与自我设定或分配的目标不同,降低了个人陷入升级陷的可能性.
科学领域:
- 决策科学 决策科学
- 组织行为 组织行为
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 承诺的升级是一个普遍的决策问题.
- 之前的研究集中在目标难度和特异性上,忽视了目标源.
- 了解目标源对于解释升级行为至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查目标源对承诺升级的影响.
- 引入和定义"遗传目标"作为一个独特的目标来源.
- 为了比较遗传目标与自我设定和指定的目标的影响.
主要方法:
- 进行了两个实验室实验.
- 参与者接触到不同的目标源条件 (遗传,自我设定,分配).
- 承诺的升级被测量为依赖变量.
主要成果:
- 具有遗传目标的个体显示升级的可能性降低.
- 遗传的目标,以缺乏初始参与和先前的努力为特征,减轻了升级.
- 这与自我设定和指定的目标形成鲜明对比,这些目标可能更容易升级.
结论:
- 目标来源显著影响承诺的升级.
- 遗传目标提供了一个潜在的机制,以避免升级陷.
- 未来的研究应该探索基于目标源操纵的干预措施.
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