Self-Predications
creates Success or Failure in People
February 13th, 2006
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Instead of just making a list of thing you want to change about your
life, you should understand that it is how you see yourself in the
future that either makes or breaks your dreams.
Making predictions about your future will increase the chance of
actually doing it, says a research study published in the March 2006
issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. They use an example of a
person that predicts that they will do a socially good deed, like
recycling. The people that used the self-prediction technique increased
their chance of actually doing the deed.
The researchers call is “self-prophecy effect” which can be more
beneficial from one person to another. "A clear benefit of the
self-prophecy technique is its simplicity: a question followed by a
simple "yes" or "no" elicits behavioral change," said the studies
authors, Eric R. Spangenberg and David E. Sprott from Washington State
University.
There are two types of personalities that the researchers found in this
study. The two types are low self-monitors and high self-monitors. The
low self monitors pay more attention to their own actions or behavior in
a situation versus the outside circumstances. The low self monitors are
more likely to be drawn to values. The high self monitors are more
aware of the external circumstances of the situation are drawn to
status.
In the research project they found that the low self-monitor personality
types tended to respond the best to self-prediction techniques. The
researchers believe that it is a person’s self-conception that is
extremely important with the self-prophecy effect. If the person
believes that they will never be this or that, it becomes true. The
self-prediction technique can actually be used to confront perceived
values that the low self-monitors have and used to turn around their
outcome.
By
Nicole Wilson
Best Syndication Staff Writer
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