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

This post is in response to Overcoming Procrastination: Four Potential Problems During Goal Pursuit By Timothy A Pychyl Ph.D. I'm often asked what someone should do to reduce procrastination. One of ...

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 ...

Strategies, like implementation intentions, that are meant to enhance our goal pursuit are only really effective when we already have strong goal intentions. Here's an example of strengthening an ...