Introduction. Drinking alcohol has detrimental health consequences, and effective interventions to reduce hazardous drinking are needed. The self-regulation intervention of Mental Contrasting with ...

Mental contrasting is a cognitive self‐regulation strategy that involves envisaging a desired future while simultaneously recognising the current reality and its attendant obstacles. This duality ...

Positive affirmations – words you’re supposed to repeat over and over again in order to inspire yourself and change your life – are now a key theme in popular self-help culture, largely thanks to the ...

A few months ago, I read a fascinating article by Gabriele Oettingen, a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg. It was titled “The Problem with Positive Thinking” ...

We’ve all heard this advice before. We might have even passed it on to encourage a struggling friend or to mentor a younger person: Follow your dreams. Imagine the future that you want, and it will ...

When we talk to other people about achieving goals, we often speak in terms that relate to energy. We think of ourselves as getting energized to get to work. Psychologists talk about the energy that ...

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when positive thinking became the star of the self-help industry. The idea of optimism is older than America itself (some accounts date it back to ancient Greece), and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. If you’re skeptical about manifesting your goals, envisioning the challenges ...

I confess I’ve never read the bestselling book, The Secret. But its basic premise—repeated ad nauseam in cheesy self-help books—goes something like this: Visualize what you want in life and really ...

‘Take one for the team.’ ‘Teed up.’ ‘Knock it out of the park.’ ‘Behind the eight ball.’ The business world has appropriated both language and concepts from the sports world, much of it actually ...