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Contents of Hopes and Duties: A Linguistic Analysis

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Title
Contents of Hopes and Duties: A Linguistic Analysis
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Frontiers in Psychology, May 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00757
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Leigh Ann Vaughn

Abstract

People in a prevention focus tend to view their goals as duties and obligations, whereas people in a promotion focus tend to view their goals as hopes and aspirations. The current research suggests that people's attention goes to somewhat different experiences when they describe their hopes vs. duties. Two studies randomly assigned participants (N = 953) to describe a hope vs. duty. Specifically, Study 1 asked participants to describe a personal experience of pursuing a hope vs. duty, and Study 2 asked participants to describe a current hope vs. duty they had. I analyzed these descriptions with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) 2015. Consistent with earlier research on regulatory focus, participants wrote more about positive outcomes when describing hopes and social relationships when describing duties. The current research suggests that the effectiveness of common regulatory focus and regulatory fit manipulations could depend on participants' freedom to choose the experiences they bring to mind when they describe their hopes and duties.

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Unknown 32 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 34%
Professor 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 6%
Student > Master 2 6%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 9 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 25%
Computer Science 5 16%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 10 31%
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