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Implementation intentions and goal achievement: a meta-analysis of effects and processes
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“Also, as reviewed by Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006), adapting specific implementation intentions (“if-then”-plans rather than overall goal intentions) may have a strong effect on goal attainment.”
From How Study Environments Foster Academic Procrastination: Overview and Recommendations (2020) · cites this paper as Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006
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“For women with, or at risk of GDM, bridging this intention–behaviour gap is likely to require specific action planning alongside concise, credible and condition‐relevant guidance [53, 54].”
From Preconception Perceptions, Knowledge and Behaviours of Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Qualitative Study (2026) · cites this paper as [53]
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“One encourages people to form realistic, concrete plans for how to implement their new health-related goals in specific situations (Gollwitzer & Sheeran 2006).”
From The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention (2014) · cites this paper as Gollwitzer & Sheeran 2006
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“Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006) found that implementation intentions had a positive effect on improving goal attainment in terms of achievements, relationships, and health, with a medium to large effect size [Cohen' d = 0.65 (95% CI = 0.6, 0.7)].”
From A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions on Goal Attainment (2021) · cites this paper as Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006)
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“Studies show that implementing study intentions and plans enhances self-regulation and performance (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006;Schwinger & Otterpohl, 2017).”
From The Potential of Exam Wrappers in Higher Education Assessment Practice: Fostering Self-Efficacy Through Guided Self-Reflection (2025) · cites this paper as Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006
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“we synthesized the evidence across these studies, as implementation intentions are considered a domain‐general self‐regulation strategy applicable to a wide range of goals.”
From The effectiveness of implementation intentions in children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis (2026) · cites this paper as Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006
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“As recently reported in a meta-analysis, implementation intentions facilitate the attainment of all kinds of goals (e.g., academic, health, and interpersonal goals; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
From Implementation Intentions Facilitate Response Inhibition in Children with ADHD (2008) · cites this paper as Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006
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“Participants are thus less likely to fall prey to the various problems in initiating action and maintaining behavioral performance (e.g., indecision about how to act, succumbing to temptations or distractions; see Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006, for a review).”
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“This study supports previous research on the beneficial effects of if-then planning on goal attainment (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
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“They come in the form of “if situation x, then I will perform behavior y.” The effects of forming implementation intentions have been supported in a great number of studies across life domains (for reviews, see Gollwitzer, 1999; Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006).”
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“Many studies investigating the effects of action planning on different behaviours could demonstrate its usefulness for behaviour change (see Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
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“Commanders might share common goal intentions (i.e. to ‘save life’) yet disparate and contradictory implementation intentions for how they will achieve this goal (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
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“Most notably, a meta-analysis by Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006) examined 94 independent studies conducted across a wide variety of social and health contexts and found that implementation intentions produced moderate-to large-sized changes in behavior (d = 0.65).”
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“An action-oriented state, or implemental mindset, is a state in which intentions are formed to execute behaviors associated with a commitment (Gollwitzer & Bayer, 1999; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
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“Planning interventions promote behaviour change [27] and have been found to be particularly effective in encouraging people to eat a healthy diet [28-30] and exercise more [24, 31-35].”
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“…in both intention formation (i.e., action planning) and translating these intentions into actual behavior (i.e., action control) (Abraham et al., 1999; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006; Rhodes, Courneya, & Jones, 2003; Rhodes & Plotnikoff, 2006; Rhodes, Plotnikoff, & Courneya, 2008; Sheeran, 2002).”
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“In previous studies (see meta-analysis by Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006), however, participants in the implementation intention condition often received useful task strategies within the phrasing of the implementation intention that participants in the goal intention condition did not receive.”
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“Results show that implementation intentions connecting a behavior to context features are more likely to be acted upon regularly (for an overview, see e.g., Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
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“…the goal (which should include identifying possible obstacles and strategies for surmounting them), communicate one’s goal commitment to others, and make sure there are ways to get feedback about progress toward the goal (Epton et al., 2017; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006; Locke & Latham, 2002, 2006).”
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“Similarly, though action planning has been predictive of goal attainment at the level of a moderate effect (d = .65; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006), evidence has been mixed when it is evaluated specifically in the context of exercise (Rhodes & Dickau, 2013).”
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Factors influencing the pursuit of personal learning goals in MOOCs
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“Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006) have pointed to the different phases of the intentionrealisation process.”
BackgroundHow we are misinterpreting physical activity intention – behavior relations and what to do about it
Rebar, A. L., Rhodes, R. E., & Gardner, B. (2019) · International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · doi:10.1186/s12966-019-0829-y · Cited by 58
Implementation intentions: a look back at fifteen years of progress.
Gallo, I. S., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2007) · PubMed · Cited by 49
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“BCTs addressing factors in the volitional phase include self-monitoring [26], goal-setting and implementation intentions [27, 28], coping planning (via volitional sheets) [29], and behavioral”
Backgroundde Vries, P., Aarts, H., & Midden, C. J. H. (2011) · Environment and Behavior · doi:10.1177/0013916510369630 · Cited by 48
“Recent treatments of effective goal pursuit suggest that implementation intentions may be a potential tool to achieve this (e.g., Aarts, Dijksterhuis, & Midden, 1999; Gollwitzer & Brandstätter, 1997; Webb & Sheeran, 2007; for a review, see Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
MethodHolding, A. C., St-Jacques, A., Verner-Filion, J., Kachanoff, F., & Koestner, R. (2020) · Motivation and Emotion · doi:10.1007/s11031-019-09777-7 · Cited by 48
“, hobbies, time with friends) to reduce conflicting attentional and behavioural demands (Gollwitzer and Sheeran 2006).”
Replacing craving imagery with alternative pleasant imagery reduces craving intensity
Knaüper, B., Pillay, R., Lacaille, J., McCollam, A., & Kelso, E. (2011) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2011.04.021 · Cited by 48
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A Volitional Help Sheet to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in the General Population: A Field Experiment
Armitage, C. J., & Arden, M. A. (2012) · Prevention Science · doi:10.1007/s11121-012-0291-4 · Cited by 56
“Self-generated implementation intentions are referred to as “standard” within the present research because they are the most common (and successful) means to date by which researchers have asked people to form implementation intentions in field studies (Gollwitzer and Sheeran 2006).”
BackgroundThe Stroke ‘Act FAST’ Campaign: Remembered but Not Understood?
Dombrowski, S. U., White, M. J., Mackintosh, J. E., Gellert, P. R., Araújo‐Soares, V., Thomson, R. G., Rodgers, H., Ford, G. A., & Sniehotta, F. F. (2014) · International Journal of Stroke · doi:10.1111/ijs.12353 · Cited by 48
Crossing the Entrepreneurial Rubicon: A Longitudinal Investigation
Delanoë‐Gueguen, S., & Fayolle, A. J.-C. (2018) · Journal of Small Business Management · doi:10.1111/jsbm.12419 · Cited by 50
“The Rubicon approach illustrates the fact that the formation of a goal intention is a first step toward goal achievement, but not a sufficient one as many implemental hurdles need to be overcome between the two (Brandst€atter et al. 2003; Gollwitzer and Sheeran 2006).”
BackgroundInfluentialRobinson, S. A., Bisson, A., Hughes, M. L., Ebert, J. E. J., & Lachman, M. E. (2018) · Psychology and Health · doi:10.1080/08870446.2018.1539487 · Cited by 47
“That is, goal difficulty may moderate success of the implementation intention (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
BackgroundVolition und kognitive Kontrolle
Goschke, T. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-53898-8_9 · Cited by 51
Overcoming Procrastination: The Effect of Implementation Intentions1
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A Volitional Help Sheet to Reduce Binge Drinking in Students: A Randomized Exploratory Trial
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The Role of Self-Regulation in Voice Therapy
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Does Situationism Threaten Free Will and Moral Responsibility?
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The effects of self-monitoring on strategy use and academic performance: A meta-analysis
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Gaining Insight to Transfer of Training through the Lens of Social Psychology.
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“If Only I Had Done Better”: Perfectionism and the Functionality of Counterfactual Thinking
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“…Email: fsirois@ubishops.ca implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1993, 1999)—a specific behavioral intention that highlights the how and when of a behavior—are known to have a stronger influence on the performance of behavior than more general behavior intentions (see Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
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“…method should lead to an increase in concrete and detailed implementation planning (Liberman & Trope, 1998), whereas the linear approach should lead people to frame the savings task in more abstract terms (Trope & Liberman, 2003), which reduces implementation planning (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”
Hardeman, W., Kinmonth, A., Michie, S., Sutton, S., & the ProActive Project Team (2009) · International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · doi:10.1186/1479-5868-6-16 · Cited by 47
Rogers, T., & Milkman, K. L. (2016) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/0956797616643071 · Cited by 48
“Forming implementation plans increases people’s likelihoods of following through on their intentions (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006; Milkman, Beshears, Choi, Laibson, & Madrian, 2011, 2013; Nickerson & Rogers, 2010; Rogers, Milkman, John, & Norton, in press).”
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an intervention to reduce older adults’ sedentary behavior
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 69-119
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1818536883
- Cited by
- 3,236
- References
- 166
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- FWCI
- 243.46
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- nbn-resolving.de
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- implementation intentions, goal achievement, goal pursuit, self-regulation, goal-directed behavior
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