Do Alcoholics Know What They're Doing? Identifications of the Act of Drinking

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العنوان: Do Alcoholics Know What They're Doing? Identifications of the Act of Drinking
المؤلفون: Denise Dizadji, Robin R. Vallacher, Daniel M. Wegner
المصدر: Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 10:197-210
بيانات النشر: Informa UK Limited, 1989.
سنة النشر: 1989
مصطلحات موضوعية: Social Psychology, Social perception, media_common.quotation_subject, Cognition, Boredom, Self-control, Developmental psychology, Action (philosophy), Phenomenon, medicine, Mental representation, Personality, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Social psychology, Applied Psychology, media_common
الوصف: Action identification theory holds that people may understand the same behavior in different ways. An action performed poorly or with hesitation is usually identified in terms of its mechanical details, whereas one performed more fluidly is understood in terms of its more meaningful consequences. This study demonstrates this phenomenon in the case of drinking alcohol. Inexperienced drinkers were inclined to identify the consumption of an alcoholic beverage as "swallowing," "lifting a glass," or the like, whereas frequent drinkers and alcoholics eschewed such identities and focused instead on identities such as "relieving tension," "overcoming boredom," or "hurting myself". If people initiate and regulate an action with reference to their preferred identifications for it, these results indicate that very different styles of self-regulation may characterize inexperienced and overindulgent people. The inexperienced person has conscious access to the details of the action, and so can regulate its performance ...
تدمد: 1532-4834
0197-3533
الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::99977431d483f0179bb2a42442f967b9Test
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15324834basp1003_1Test
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........99977431d483f0179bb2a42442f967b9
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE