eprintid: 15459
rev_number: 34
eprint_status: archive
userid: 466
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datestamp: 2013-08-22 11:09:28
lastmod: 2022-06-30 10:49:19
status_changed: 2013-08-22 11:09:28
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Blech, Christine
creators_name: Funke, Joachim
title: You cannot have your cake and eat it, too
subjects: 150
divisions: 100200
abstract: Abstract: Managing multiple and conflicting goals is a demand typical to both everyday life and complex coordination tasks. Two experiments (N = 111) investigated how goal conflicts affect motivation and cognition in a complex problemsolving paradigm. In Experiment 1, participants dealt with a game-like computer simulation involving a predefined goal relation: Parallel goals were independent, mutually facilitating, or interfering with one another. As expected, goal conflicts entailed lowered motivation and wellbeing. Participants’ understanding of causal effects within the simulation was impaired, too. Behavioral measures of subjects’ interventions support the idea of adaptive, self-regulatory processes: reduced action with growing awareness of the goal conflict and balanced goal pursuit. Experiment 2 endorses the hypotheses of motivation loss and reduced acquisition of system-related knowledge in an extended problem-solving paradigm of four conflicting goals. Impairing effects of goal interference on motivation and wellbeing were found, although less distinct and robust as in Experiment 1. Participants undertook fewer interventions in case of a goal conflict and acquired less knowledge about the system. Formal complexity due to the interconnectedness among goals is discussed as a limiting influence on inferring the problem structure.
date: 2010
id_scheme: DOI
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-1
schriftenreihe_order: 136
ppn_swb: 1652988289
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-154598
language: eng
bibsort: BLECHCHRISYOUCANNOTH2010
full_text_status: public
publication: The open psychology journal
number: 3
pagerange: 42-53
citation:   Blech, Christine ; Funke, Joachim  (2010) You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.  The open psychology journal (3).  pp. 42-53.      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15459/1/Blech%26Funke_2010_Polytely.pdf