Lecture of Prof. Peter Gollwitzer in Wrocław, Poland#
DATE: 6 JULY, 2018; 14:30-16:00
VENUE: SWPS University, Wrocław Faculty of Psychology
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Psychology in Wroclaw in the dates of 2-9 July, 2018 will organize the Social Psychology and Economic Psychology Summer School.
During the Summer School Prof. Peter Gollwitzer (New York University), Member of Academia Europaea, will give a keynote lecture titled:
„Effective Goal Attainment by If-Then Planning”
Turning one’s motivation to engage in desired thoughts, feelings, and actions into binding goals has long been thought to be sufficient to get what we want. But striving for these goals often turns out to be ineffective: people fail to get started and easily get distracted once they got started. Preparing one’s goal striving in advance via making plans on when, where, and how to act (referred to as making if-then plans or forming implementation intentions) however helps to promote goal attainment. The beneficial effects of making if-then plans are observed no matter whether hindrances from within the person (e.g., ego depletion) or from outside (e.g., negative social influences) are to be dealt with. In my talk, I’ll delineate the processes on which the beneficial effects of implementation intentions are based on by presenting relevant research using cognitive task paradigms and assessing brain data. I’ll also report findings demonstrating that implementation intentions can be used to curb even habitual cognitive, affective, and behavioral interfering responses. In closing, I’ll point to recent research on planning to think carefully showing that such plans improve decision making. Moreover, I’ll point to potential moderators of if-then planning effects.
Summer school participants will attend one of two main workshops: on Social Psychology and Economic Psychology. during the summer school will be also held be held additional workshops that will improve participants’ skills as researchers.
Right after the Summer School the conference “Turning Ideas into Research. Adding Bricks to the Block of Science”. This way summer school participants can gain feedback on their research proposals from experienced researchers and improve their presentation skills by focusing on three methodological issues: effectiveness of experimental manipulations, replications in psychology, and methods used in psychological research. The conference is open to general audience.
The lecture will be financed by the resources granted to AE by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Summer school website: http://szkolaletnia2018.swps.edu.pl
Conference website (in Polish): http://odpomysludobadania.swps.edu.pl
