Alcoba Jesús, López Laura
International Graduate School, Centro Superior de Estudios Universitarios La Salle, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Eur J Psychol. 2017 Nov 30;13(4):708-716. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1372. eCollection 2017 Nov.
Positive psychology focuses on aspects that human beings can improve, thereby enhancing their growth and happiness. One of these aspects is willpower, a quality that has been demonstrated to have various benefits on people, as widely shown in the literature. As a result, a growing body of research is attempting to establish the conditions under which an individual's willpower can be increased. This work attempts to confirm whether the famous quotations that people often use to inspire or motivate themselves can have a real effect on willpower. Two experiments were conducted assigning randomly subjects to a group and priming them with famous quotations, and afterwards comparing their performance in a willpower task with a control group. The second experiment added a willpower depletion task before priming. As a result, primed subjects endured the willpower task significantly more time than control group, demonstrating that famous quotations related to willpower help to increase this capacity and to counteract the effect of willpower depletion.
积极心理学关注人类可以改进的方面，从而促进他们的成长和幸福。其中一个方面是意志力，正如文献中广泛显示的那样，这一品质已被证明对人们有各种益处。因此，越来越多的研究试图确定可以增强个人意志力的条件。这项研究试图证实人们经常用来激励自己的名言是否真的能对意志力产生影响。进行了两项实验，将受试者随机分组并用名言对他们进行启动，然后将他们在意志力任务中的表现与对照组进行比较。第二项实验在启动前增加了一项意志力耗竭任务。结果，接受启动的受试者在意志力任务中坚持的时间明显比对照组更长，这表明与意志力相关的名言有助于增强这种能力，并抵消意志力耗竭的影响。
