Abstract We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and 10,000 school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance on male-typed task relating math science, we find large gender gap in self-evaluations. This arises when self-evaluations provided potential employers, thus measure self-promotion, not driven by incentives promote. T...

A large body of evidence has shown that health-promotion programs in smoking cessation, stress management, fitness, nutrition, weight control, and medical self care have been successful in helping people improve their health practices and related health conditions. However, the impact of these programs on promoting self-healing among people with acute and chronic diseases is mixed. The purpose ...

Research has suggested people have two distinct hedonic self-regulatory systems, promotion self-regulatory focus and prevention self-regulatory focus. Individuals in promotion focus are sensitive to the presence of gains and positive results. On the other hand, individuals in prevention focus are sensitive to the absence of losses. This study merged conceptual arguments, and developed and teste...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to further understand the health promotion behaviors of Korean goose mothers in the North America area. Health promotion behaviors measured in this study were self-actualization, health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, interpersonal relations, and stress management. METHODS The study is part of a larger study which used surveys (N=140) and in...

The study investigated the relationship between motivation, self-efficacy and demographic variables, and determined if they affect the performance of health promotion behaviours in overweight or obese middle-aged American women. The sample consisted of middle-aged American women from a small town in Michigan. Two groups of women aged 30-65, one with a body mass index (BMI) range of 25-29, and t...

In a series of two studies, we explored people’s selection of self-promotion or competitor derogation when intrasexually competing for mates, as influenced by sex and romantic relationship involvement. In Study 1, student participants completed a forced-choice survey outlining six hypothetical competitive tactics. The findings indicated that self-promotion was chosen more often than competitor ...

aims: most of the world population who is at work and production age does not have appropriate and regular physical activity for various reasons. accordingly, the researchers tried to evaluate the effect of physical activity predictors of employees through the path analysis based on the pender's health promotion model (hpm). methods and materials: we conducted this study on 359 employees of the...

When does procedural unfairness result in retaliation, and why do recipients of unfair treatment sometimes pursue and other times inhibit retaliation? Five studies addressed these questions. The authors proposed and found that regulatory focus moderates retaliation against an unfairness-enacting authority: Promotion-focus participants were more likely to retaliate than prevention-focus particip...