Why people should run after positive affective experiences instead of health benefits

Silvio Maltagliati, Philippe Sarrazin, Layan Fessler, Mael Lebreton and Boris Cheval
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Silvio Maltagliati: SENS - Sport et Environnement Social - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Philippe Sarrazin: SENS - Sport et Environnement Social - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Layan Fessler: SENS - Sport et Environnement Social - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Boris Cheval: CISA - Swiss Center for Affective Sciences - UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva, Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3Lab), Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland Department of Public Health, Social and Environmental Determinants of Health

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Abstract: • Promoting health benefits is necessary but insufficient to foster sustained engagement in physical activity (PA). • Our formal decision-making model explains why health benefits hold a weak subjective value. • In this model, expected health benefits are jointly discounted by effort-discounting, delay-discounting, and beliefs distortion. • In contrast, positive affective experiences toward PA can reduce the perception of effort, provide more immediate consequences, and strengthen beliefs about health benefits. • Because affective experiences have the potential to tip the balance in favor of PA over sedentary alternatives, they should be at the core of PA promotion.

Date: 2024-07
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Published in Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2024, 13 (4), pp.445-450. ⟨10.1016/j.jshs.2022.10.005⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jshs.2022.10.005

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