{"id":2692,"date":"2011-05-28T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2011-05-28T09:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:29:42","slug":"creative-visualization-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"Creative Visualization Doesn’t Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or so claim researchers who publish in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Or is it just fantasies (winning the lottery, etc.) that don’t work?<\/p>\n

But ultimately, Happes and Oettingen believe that positive fantasies are likely to scupper your changes of obtaining your goals. “Instead of promoting achievement, positive fantasies will sap job-seekers of the energy to pound the pavement, and drain the lovelorn of the energy to approach the one they like,” they write. “Fantasies that are less positive – that question whether an ideal future can be achieved, and that depict obstacles, problems and setbacks – should be more beneficial for mustering the energy needed to obtain success.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of the experiment design compared to an actual visualization?<\/p>\n

And this zinger at the end:<\/p>\n

This study isn’t the first to explode the myth of a traditional self-help tool. A 2009 paper<\/a> found that repeating positive mantras about themselves led people low in self-esteem to feel worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or so claim researchers who publish in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Or is it just fantasies (winning the lottery, etc.) that don’t work? 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