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Not just for your health alone: Regular exercisers' decision-making in unrelated domains

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dc.contributor.authorZimmermann, Laura
dc.contributor.authorChakravarti, Amitav
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-19T12:31:03Z
dc.date.available2025-02-19T12:31:03Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-10
dc.description.abstractDo regularly physically active individuals differ in their decision making from people who are not regularly physically active? Across five studies, we document a novel benefit of being regularly physically active for decisions that require the appropriate weighing of goal-relevant versus goal-irrelevant information. Usually, when faced with a mix of relevant and irrelevant attribute information, decision makers find it difficult to ignore the irrelevant information, and as such, “dilute” their judgments (i.e., judgments become less extreme). Such a dilution effect has been amply documented in past research. In contrast, we find that people who engage in regular leisure physical activity are less susceptible to dilution effects. Beyond the dilution effect, we also find similar benefits of being regularly physically active for decisions involving desirability-feasibility trade-offs. The results hold across multiple replicates, diverse samples, and different measures of regular physical activity. We also rule out several potential alternative accounts (e.g., demographics, personality traits). The results cannot be explained by physical effort alone as these benefits are observed only for regular leisure physical activity and not for occupational physical activity.
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dc.identifier.citationZimmermann, L., & Chakravarti, A. (2022). Not just for your health alone: Regular exercisers’ decision-making in unrelated domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 28(2), 379–398. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000397
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000397
dc.identifier.issn1939-2192
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3590
dc.issue.number2
dc.journal.titleJournal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final398
dc.page.initial379
dc.page.total71
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association
dc.relation.departmentMarketing & Communication
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed
dc.subject.keywordRegular physical activity
dc.subject.keywordIrrelevant information
dc.subject.keywordDilution effect
dc.subject.keywordTrade-offs
dc.titleNot just for your health alone: Regular exercisers' decision-making in unrelated domains
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dc.volume.number28
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