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AuthorBriki W.
AuthorMarkman K.D.
Available date2020-03-03T06:19:34Z
Publication Date2018
Publication NameSocial and Personality Psychology Compass
ResourceScopus
ISSN17519004
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12412
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/13179
AbstractPsychological momentum (PM) is thought to be a force that influences judgment, emotion, and performance. Based on a review of the extant literature, we elucidate two distinct approaches that researchers have adopted in their study of PM: the input-centered approach and the output-centered approach. Consistent with the input-centered approach, we conceptualize PM as a process whereby temporal and contextual PM-like stimuli (i.e., perceptual velocity, perceptual mass, perceptual historicity, and perceptually interconnected timescales)?initially perceived as an impetus?are extrapolated to imagined future outcomes through mental simulation. In turn, and consistent with the output-centered approach, we posit that mental simulation elicits experiential (e.g., perceptual, cognitive, emotional) and behavioral states that govern goal pursuit, and that the pursuit of goals further influences perceptions of self, environment, and action quality. In all, we suggest that PM is interdependently linked to perceptions and behaviors in the sense that PM both influences and is influenced by changes in self-perceptions, environmental perceptions, and behavior, and we conclude by linking the PM construct to recent work on prospection.
Languageen
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
TitlePsychological momentum: The phenomenology of goal pursuit
TypeArticle
Issue Number9
Volume Number12


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