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  • 1.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 08:14
    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

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  • 2.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 08:56

    You might check the article cited below as a good starting point

     

    1.    Seeing future success: Does imagery perspective influence achievement motivation?

    By Vasquez, Noelia A.; Buehler, Roger

    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Vol 33(10), Oct 2007, 1392-1405

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hoag
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    Subject: [OB-LIST] Visualizing Success

     

    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

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  • 3.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 09:11

    Try successconsciousness.com which refers to Indian religious and worldviews.  - john

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hoag
    Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:14 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Visualizing Success

     

    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

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  • 4.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 09:20

    Bruce,

    You might begin with the goal setting literature, specifically, the "directive" function of goals. For a review, see:

     

    Locke, E.A., & Latham, G. P. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation. American Psychologist, 57, 705-717.

     

    Bruce

     

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    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hoag
    Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:14 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Visualizing Success

     

    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

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  • 5.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 12:05
    Hi Bruce,

    You might also find some support for this idea with literature on systematic desensitization.

    Good luck.

    Sincerely,
    lilunia

    On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Bruce Hoag <b.hoag@p-advantage.com> wrote:
    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

    ------------------------------------------------------
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  • 6.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 14:42
    Hi Bruce,

    Wood and Bandura (1989, AMR) also advance the idea that there is something of a reciprocal relationship between 'visualizing success' and self-efficacy:  Visualizing success may lead people to be self-efficacious... but it's those who are self-efficacious in the first place that tend to visualize succeeding:

    "Highly self-efficacious individuals visualize success scenarios that provide positive guides for performance, whereas 
    those who judge themselves as inefficacious are more inclined to visualize failure scenarios, which undermine performance. One's perceived self-efficacy and cognitive simulation affect each other bidirectionally. People's high sense of efficacy fosters cognitive constructions of effective actions, and people's cognitive reiteration of efficacious courses of action strengthens their self-beliefs of efficacy." 

    This would suggest the possibility of a self-reinforcing 'virtuous circle' of visualization and self-efficacy.

    Best,

    Lukas



    On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Lilunia Steinman <lilunia.steinman@gmail.com> wrote:
    Hi Bruce,

    You might also find some support for this idea with literature on systematic desensitization.

    Good luck.

    Sincerely,
    lilunia


    On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Bruce Hoag <b.hoag@p-advantage.com> wrote:
    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

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  • 7.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 15:01
    You might want to read through:

    Taylor, S. E., Pham, L. B., Rivkin, I. D., & Armor, D. A. (1998).
    Harnessing imagination: Mental simulation, self-regulation, and
    coping. American Psychologist, 53(4), 429-439.

    Ryan

    Quoting Lilunia Steinman <lilunia.steinman@GMAIL.COM>:

    > Hi Bruce,
    >
    > You might also find some support for this idea with literature on systematic
    > desensitization.
    >
    > Good luck.
    >
    > Sincerely,
    > lilunia
    >
    > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Bruce Hoag


  • 8.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 15:13

    Bruce,

    Albert Bandura's concept of "forethought capability" is primarily what you are seeking. It is discussed at length in his social cognitive theory and elsewhere. Charles Carver and Michael Scheier's work on self-regulation and trait optimism also would apply. Finally, as others have noted, some of the goal-setting literature (Ed Locke, Gary Latham) is appropriate for your question.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Tim Munyon

     

    ---------------------------------------------

    Timothy P. Munyon

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Management

    College of Business

    University of Central Florida

    PO Box 161400

    Orlando, FL 32816-1400

    tmunyon@bus.ucf.edu

    (407) 823-1102 (O)

    (407) 823-3725 (F)

     

     

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hoag
    Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:14 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Visualizing Success

     

    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

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  • 9.  Visualizing Success

    Posted 09-04-2009 16:10

    Hi Bruce,

     

    Dov Eden in his work on self-fulfilling prophecies probably does not explicitly mention visualization but my recollection is that he speaks of "vicarious experience"-the observations of what others are able to do-as key input into self-fulfilling prophecies generated by the self based on observation rather than the expectations of others.

     

    Also, David McClelland of course based much of his work on [achievement] [power] [affiliation] imagery-"seeing" in what one observes the possibilities that exist for these.  Again, not directly visualization but certainly (at least in my head) analogous.

     

    Ben

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    From: <st1:personname w:st="on">Organizational Behavior Division Listserv</st1:personname> [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Meglino, Bruce
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    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] Visualizing Success

     

    Bruce,

    You might begin with the goal setting literature, specifically, the "directive" function of goals. For a review, see:

     

    Locke, E.A., & Latham, G. P. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation. American Psychologist, 57, 705-717.

     

    Bruce

     

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    <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:state w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:state> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Columbia</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">SC</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">29208</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

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    From: <st1:personname w:st="on">Organizational Behavior Division Listserv</st1:personname> [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hoag
    Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:14 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Visualizing Success

     

    Colleagues,

    I don't expect any cross-postings, but I'll apologize for them anyway.

    I'm trying to trace the origins of the ubiquitous idea that achievement can be attained or enhanced by visualizing it beforehand. I'd like to avoid the sports literature for now.

    Cheers, Bruce

    Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
    Organizational Psychologist

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