Emily Balcetis
also referred to as: dr. emily balcetis
10 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2022 by Dr. Emily Balcetis · said 11 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Dec 13, 2022
Balcetis: People Prefer Negative Feedback That Confirms Existing Self-Perceptions
“Sometimes counterintuitively, we'd rather get negative feedback about ourselves than positive feedback. We relish that if it's consistent with what we think is true about ourselves. That getting something that maybe is even positive or at least neutral that is…”
Dec 13, 2022 positive
Balcetis: Faster runners increasingly narrow visual attention toward race finishes
“And what we found is that the people who actually run races faster and in other studies who report that their fastest race time or what they're currently running at is faster than those that have slower race times. Those are the people that use this strategy o…”
Dec 13, 2022
Balcetis: Goal Abandonment Stems from Treating Setbacks as Identity Failures
“That's sometimes why people also stop working on the goal is that they feel like they failed and they avoid that. They don't want to feel like a failure. They don't want that label put on them. That can be really challenging. And I think the problem is because…”
Dec 13, 2022
Balcetis: Motivation counteracts body weight effects on distance perception
“When people are more motivated to exercise or to make it to that finish line, that motivation can, in a sense, compensate for that effect of their body on their perception of distance. So that even highly motivated people, people who are highly motivated, even…”
Dec 13, 2022 positive
Balcetis: Planning calendar a week ahead yields 2.5 more goal hours
“Over the course of a week, when people had spent, had planned time in their calendar a week in advance, when they thought more big picture about time allocation, they found two and a half more hours to work on their goal, in contrast to when people were thinki…”
Dec 13, 2022
Dec 13, 2022 neutral
Balcetis: Overcommitment stems from evaluating distant tasks by desirability over feasibility
“We start thinking about what's feasible when we're in a more psychologically close point in time or a moment of consideration, and we're thinking about what's desirable when it's further removed from time. So that's just another tactic we have to sort of take …”
Dec 13, 2022 positive
Narrowed visual focus improves speed 23% and reduces perceived effort 17%
“And when we taught people that narrowed style of attention, what we found is that they moved 23% faster in this course that we had set up from the start line to the finish line. It was always exactly the same distance, and we were using our stopwatches to see …”
Jul 4, 2023 positive
Balcetis: Narrowed visual focus makes runners 23% faster with 17% less pain
“And when we taught people that narrowed style of attention, what we found is that they moved 23% faster in this course that we had set up from the start line to the finish line. It was always exactly the same distance, and we were using our stopwatches to see …”
Jul 4, 2023 neutral
Balcetis: Higher BMI individuals visually perceive distances as farther
“And we found that people who have a higher waist to hip ratio or a higher BMI see distances as farther than people who have a lower waist to hip ratio or lower BMI. Those distances literally look farther to people that for whom it might be harder to make it to…”