Self-persuasion strategies to resist temptation

Lima de Franca Doria, Maria Violante 2005. Self-persuasion strategies to resist temptation. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

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Abstract

The main aim of this thesis is to understand how people use cognition to resist tempting objects, and behaviours. Applying the Epistemic and Teleologic Model of Deliberate Self-Persuasion to temptation, the impact of motivation on the use of self- persuasion strategies was explored. Four experimental studies were conducted in three diverse contexts: teenagers' consumption of beverages, restrained eaters' consumption of chocolate, and dating students' attraction to alternative partners. Overall, the pattern of results indicated that motivated people use epistemic self- persuasion strategies to derogate the tempting object as a way to resist temptation. This process of deliberate self-persuasion had effects on subsequent evaluation and behaviour towards the tempting object, in particular by the creation of new negative information regarding that object. Discussion focuses on relevant theoretical and practical implications in the domains of attitude-change, cognitive therapy, and social intervention.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
ISBN:	9781303170591
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2014 08:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/55596

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