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List of works by Gabriele Oettingen

A short goal-pursuit intervention to improve physical capacity: a randomized clinical trial in chronic back pain patients

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Alcohol affects goal commitment by explicitly and implicitly induced myopia

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Alcohol breeds empty goal commitments

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Alcohol intake can reduce gambling behavior

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Alcohol myopia and goal commitment

scientific article published on 04 March 2014

An online randomised controlled trial of mental contrasting with implementation intentions as a smoking behaviour change intervention

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Applying theory-driven approaches to understanding and modifying clinicians' behavior: what do we know?

scientific article published on March 2007

Changing Resident Physician Studying Behaviors: A Randomized, Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Goal Setting Versus Use of WOOP.

scientific article published in August 2017

Distractor devaluation in a flanker task: object-specific effects without distractor recognition memory

scientific article published on 9 September 2013

Downregulation of Anger by Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions (MCII)

Effects of Implementation Intentions on Anxiety, Perceived Proximity, and Motor Performance

scientific article published on February 22, 2013

From Fantasy to Action: Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) Improves Academic Performance in Children

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From studying the determinants of action to analysing its regulation: a commentary on Sniehotta, Presseau and Araújo-Soares

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Future thought and behaviour change

Goal striving strategies and effort mobilization: When implementation intentions reduce effort-related cardiac activity during task performance

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Gone exercising: Mental contrasting promotes physical activity among overweight, middle-aged, low-SES fishermen

scientific article published on August 13, 2012

Implementation intention and planning interventions in Health Psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice.

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Internet-Based Studies

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Intervention effects of information and self-regulation on eating fruits and vegetables over two years

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Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Reduces Drinking When Drinking Is Hazardous: An Online Self-Regulation Intervention

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Mental Contrasting and the Self-Regulation of Responding to Negative Feedback

scientific article published on May 29, 2012

Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality

Mental Contrasting of a Negative Future with a Positive Reality Regulates State Anxiety

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Mental contrasting and goal commitment: the mediating role of energization

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Mental contrasting and transfer of energization

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Mental contrasting changes the meaning of reality

Mental contrasting facilitates academic performance in school children

article by Anton Gollwitzer et al published 23 April 2011 in Motivation and Emotion

Mental contrasting instigates goal pursuit by linking obstacles of reality with instrumental behavior

scientific article published in July 2012

Mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII) improves physical activity and weight loss among stroke survivors over one year

scientific article published in November 2017

Mind wandering via mental contrasting as a tool for behavior change

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

Multiple trauma and mental health in former Ugandan child soldiers

scientific article published on October 2010

Pessimism and behavioural signs of depression in East versus West Berlin

scientific article published in May 1990

Physical activity in women: effects of a self-regulation intervention.

scientific article published in November 2008

Pleasure Now, Pain Later: Positive Fantasies About the Future Predict Symptoms of Depression

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Positive fantasies about idealized futures sap energy

Positive fantasies and negative emotions in soccer fans

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Positive thinking about the future in newspaper reports and presidential addresses predicts economic downturn

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Posttraumatic resilience in former Ugandan child soldiers

scientific article published on July 2010

Pragmatic prospection: How and why people think about the future

Promoting the Self-Regulation of Stress in Health Care Providers: An Internet-Based Intervention.

scientific article

Sad mood promotes self-initiated mental contrasting of future and reality

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Self-regulation of commitment to reduce cigarette consumption: mental contrasting of future with reality

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Separable brain systems supporting cued versus self-initiated realization of delayed intentions.

scientific article published in July 2009

Spontaneous mental contrasting and selective goal pursuit

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Strategies of intention formation are reflected in continuous MEG activity

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Supporting Sustainable Food Consumption: Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) Aligns Intentions and Behavior

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Taking Responsibility for Others and Use of Mental Contrasting

scientific article published on 12 January 2020

The Future of Women in Psychological Science

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

The motivating function of thinking about the future: expectations versus fantasies

scientific article published on November 2002

The projection of implicit and explicit goals

scientific article published in April 2004

Using mental contrasting with implementation intentions to reduce bedtime procrastination: two randomised trials

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Why did I do that? Explaining actions activated outside of awareness

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

Wishful information preference: positive fantasies mimic the effects of intentions

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

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