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Harris et al., 2014: Affirming values or implementing if-then strategies increased fruit and vegetable consumption among adults one week to three months later

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Harris, P. R., Brearley, I., Sheeran, P., Barker, M., Klein, W. M., Creswell, J. D., ... & Bond, R. (2014). Combining self-affirmation with implementation intentions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption. Health Psychology, 33(7), 729.
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Adults who both reflected on personal values before reading information about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables and who made a plan about how to do so using an “If…then…” template reported eating more fruit and vegetables 7 days later; there was no benefit for either intervention on its own. At a 3-month follow-up, both the affirmation intervention and the implementation-intention intervention produced independent (non-interacting) increases in reported fruit and vegetable consumption, though the later was marginally significant.

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Greg Walton & Timothy Wilson