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Exercise-related Cognitive Errors and Believability of Exercise Information
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: Fitsperation media are online content that profile idealized, thin yet muscular, bodies as desirable and achievable through exercise, which is an unrealistic standard for many people. This research will investigate if people who make more exercise related cognitive errors (ECEs; representing a negatively distorted view of exercise information) believe fitspiration content more and have more negative exercise and self related thoughts after viewing it. This research will also examine if ECEs operate automatically by measuring task monitoring, as demonstrated by mistakes made on a simple categorization task; a higherror rate indicates defaulting to automatic modes of thinking. Finally, this research will investigate affective exercise associations as a possible mediator between ECEs and fitspiration believability and thoughts about exercise or the self as a result of seeing fitspiration images. It may be that people with high ECEs will have a stronger negative affective exercise association after viewing fitspiration media, influencing how exercise or the self are thought about. In examining this possible mediator and whether ECEs operate automatically, this research can identify possible intervention targets to help people critically evaluate exercise related media.The primary purpose of this research is to examine whether exposure to fitspiration media results in greater believability and more negative exercise or self related thoughts in people high in ECEs compared to low ECEs. An additional purpose is to examine the possible automaticity of ECEs.
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- 2020-02-01
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- Research Material
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- ©️Berry, Tanya. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2024.