APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Tell Me Who You Are and I Tell You How You Think about Your Goals: Background Variables’ Associations with Spontaneous Self-Regulatory Thought
- Birte Thissen
New York University - Michael Barthelmäs
University Ulm - Dominik Stöckle
University Ulm - Johannes Keller
University of Ulm - Gabriele Oettingen
New York University
Abstract
We found small yet significant associations between key background variables and spontaneous mode of self-regulatory thought: The Extraversion and Openness personality traits, and one’s gender, age, and educational degree as well as the category of the goal in question can all affect how individuals freely think about their desired future.
Motivation
