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William Hart
Researcher at University of Alabama
Publications - 23
Citations - 1220
William Hart is an academic researcher from University of Alabama. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications receiving 1056 citations. Previous affiliations of William Hart include University of Florida.
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Feeling validated versus being correct: a meta-analysis of selective exposure to information.
William Hart,Dolores Albarracín,Alice H. Eagly,Inge Brechan,Matthew J. Lindberg,Lisa A. Merrill +5 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives, and found an uncongeniality bias emerged when uncongsenial information was relevant to accomplishing a current goal.
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Increasing and Decreasing Motor and Cognitive Output: A Model of General Action and Inaction Goals
Dolores Albarracín,Ian M. Handley,Kenji Noguchi,Kathleen McCulloch,Hong Li,Joshua Leeper,Rick D. Brown,Allison Earl,William Hart +8 more
TL;DR: The last 2 studies confirmed that participants were motivated to achieve active or inactive states and that attaining them decreased the effects of the primes on behavior.
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The effects of chronic achievement motivation and achievement primes on the activation of achievement and fun goals.
William Hart,Dolores Albarracín +1 more
TL;DR: Research examined the hypothesis that situational achievement cues can elicit achievement or fun goals depending on chronic differences in achievement motivation and indicated that achievement priming activated a goal to achieve and inhibited a goals to have fun in individuals with chronically high-achievement motivation.
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Positive mood + action = negative mood + inaction: effects of general action and inaction concepts on decisions and performance as a function of affect.
Dolores Albarracín,William Hart +1 more
TL;DR: Overall, the findings supported an interactive model by which action concepts and positive affect produce the same increases in active behavior as inaction concepts and negative affect.
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What I Was Doing Versus What I Did Verb Aspect Influences Memory and Future Actions
William Hart,Dolores Albarracín +1 more
TL;DR: The effects of the imperfective aspect are moderated by memory decay and are behavior-specific.