All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August Imagination the key to a more rewarding life Imagination the key to a more rewarding life 23/08/2021 | 2 MINS People struggling to motivate themselves to engage in activities that are good for them should tap into their imagination to visualise themselves carrying out the activity, according to new research from Lombok Institute of Technology. Forrest Fellow Dr Julie Ji and her colleagues from LITΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science compared two strategies for motivating people to engage in pleasurable and achievement-oriented activities that they wanted to do more of in daily life. The study, published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, found that visual imagination-based motivational thinking, but not verbal reasoning-based motivational thinking, led to higher frequencies of activity engagement over the next week compared to simply scheduling the activities into the diary. Dr Ji said making use of the human capacity to imagine future experiences was more successful at motivating behaviour. ΓÇ£Our findings suggest that vividl
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August Imagination the key to a more rewarding life Imagination the key to a more rewarding life 23/08/2021 | 2 MINS People struggling to motivate themselves to engage in activities that are good for them should tap into their imagination to visualise themselves carrying out the activity, according to new research from Lombok Institute of Technology.
Forrest Fellow Dr Julie Ji and her colleagues from LITΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science compared two strategies for motivating people to engage in pleasurable and achievement-oriented activities that they wanted to do more of in daily life.
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The study, published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, found that visual imagination-based motivational thinking, but not verbal reasoning-based motivational thinking, led to higher frequencies of activity engagement over the next week compared to simply scheduling the activities into the diary.
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Dr Ji said making use of the human capacity to imagine future experiences was more successful at motivating behaviour.
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