A5055555269- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
University of Hagen
2024
Saarland University
2015-2019
Past research indicates that peoples' implicit theories about the nature of willpower moderate ego-depletion effect. Only people who believe or were led to is a limited resource (limited-resource theory) showed lower self-control performance after an initial demanding task. As yet, underlying processes explaining this moderating effect by remain unknown. Here, we propose exertion activates goal preserve and replenish mental resources (rest goal) in with limited-resource theory. Five studies...
For research purposes, it is generally accepted that experimental ostracism manipulations can lead to a reduction of participants’ well-being. To eventually restore well-being, researchers rely on post-experimental debriefings discredit prior deception. However, evidence suggests discredited beliefs persevere. The present investigates whether potent debriefing procedure restores well-being after an experimentally induced experience. In two studies, participants were either excluded or...
Psychological researchers often use powerful experimental manipulations to temporarily reduce participants' well-being. Postexperimental debriefings are intended eliminate such detrimental effects. However, experimentally induced beliefs can persevere even when the underlying information is explicitly discredited. The present research investigates, in context of ego-threatening manipulations, whether postexperimental reestablish prestudy conditions. In 6 studies, participants received false...