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The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII)
The self-regulation of conformity has received little attention in previous research. This is surprising because group majorities can exert social strong pressure on people, leading them to overlook the pursuit of their own goals. We investigated if self-regulation by mental contrasting with impleme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8206508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.546178 |
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author | von Weichs, Vivica Krott, Nora Rebekka Oettingen, Gabriele |
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description | The self-regulation of conformity has received little attention in previous research. This is surprising because group majorities can exert social strong pressure on people, leading them to overlook the pursuit of their own goals. We investigated if self-regulation by mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII) can reduce people’s tendency to conform and facilitate their own goal-pursuit despite deviant majority influence. In a computer-based logical reasoning task, we exposed participants to a conformity manipulation, where we presented bogus diagrams showing the supposedly correct answers of a majority ingroup. Compared to participants who were not given a self-regulation strategy (Studies 1, 2, and 4) or who were in an active control group (Study 3), MCII helped participants to self-regulate conforming behavior in trying to solve the task and to independently solve the logical reasoning task, as indicated by increases in correct answers in the task. The findings suggest that MCII is an effective strategy to regulate people’s tendency to conform and supports them to attain their goal despite deviant majority influence. |
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spelling | pubmed-82065082021-06-17 The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) von Weichs, Vivica Krott, Nora Rebekka Oettingen, Gabriele Front Psychol Psychology The self-regulation of conformity has received little attention in previous research. This is surprising because group majorities can exert social strong pressure on people, leading them to overlook the pursuit of their own goals. We investigated if self-regulation by mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII) can reduce people’s tendency to conform and facilitate their own goal-pursuit despite deviant majority influence. In a computer-based logical reasoning task, we exposed participants to a conformity manipulation, where we presented bogus diagrams showing the supposedly correct answers of a majority ingroup. Compared to participants who were not given a self-regulation strategy (Studies 1, 2, and 4) or who were in an active control group (Study 3), MCII helped participants to self-regulate conforming behavior in trying to solve the task and to independently solve the logical reasoning task, as indicated by increases in correct answers in the task. The findings suggest that MCII is an effective strategy to regulate people’s tendency to conform and supports them to attain their goal despite deviant majority influence. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8206508/ /pubmed/34149487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.546178 Text en Copyright © 2021 von Weichs, Krott and Oettingen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology von Weichs, Vivica Krott, Nora Rebekka Oettingen, Gabriele The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) |
title | The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) |
title_full | The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) |
title_fullStr | The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) |
title_full_unstemmed | The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) |
title_short | The Self-Regulation of Conformity: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII) |
title_sort | self-regulation of conformity: mental contrasting with implementation intentions (mcii) |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8206508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.546178 |
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