Crum & Langer, 2007: Explaining that their job is physically healthy increased health and job satisfaction among hotel room attendants over four weeks
Reference:
Crum, A. J., & Langer, E. J. (2007). Mind-set matters: Exercise and the placebo effect. Psychological Science, 18(2), 165-171.
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Telling hotel room attendants that cleaning hotel rooms meets the Surgeon General’s recommendations for an active lifestyle reduced attendants’ weight, systolic blood pressure, and percent body fat and increased their job satisfaction four weeks later.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Personal and Social ExperiencesApproach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Changing beliefs in and about interpersonal conflicts and interactionsHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Will this treatment or behavior help me?Will this treatment or behavior help me?Psychological Question Addressed
Will this treatment or behavior help me?Psychological Process 2:
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Social Area:
Health
Intervention Technique:
Prompting with information