Promoting positive orientation towards health through social identity
Author(s)
Tarrant, M
Hagger, MS
Farrow, CV
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2012
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How many of us habitually attend a gym class two or three times each week, and monitor the amount of salt and saturated fat we consume in our diets? Hopefully, quite a lot of us. Yet, how many of us also ®nd ourselves quite often ± perhaps while in the company of friends ± eating more than we should or drinking a few too many glasses of wine? Unfortunately, it seems, quite a lot of people fall into this category as well, as recent statistics on obesity and alcohol-related hospital admissions pay testament (The King's Fund, 2010). How, then, do we explain this apparent inconsistency between making decisions and pursuing ...
View more >How many of us habitually attend a gym class two or three times each week, and monitor the amount of salt and saturated fat we consume in our diets? Hopefully, quite a lot of us. Yet, how many of us also ®nd ourselves quite often ± perhaps while in the company of friends ± eating more than we should or drinking a few too many glasses of wine? Unfortunately, it seems, quite a lot of people fall into this category as well, as recent statistics on obesity and alcohol-related hospital admissions pay testament (The King's Fund, 2010). How, then, do we explain this apparent inconsistency between making decisions and pursuing behaviours that are bene®cial for our health on the one hand and acting in ways that can clearly undermine our health on the other? The current chapter seeks to explain this inconsistency.
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View more >How many of us habitually attend a gym class two or three times each week, and monitor the amount of salt and saturated fat we consume in our diets? Hopefully, quite a lot of us. Yet, how many of us also ®nd ourselves quite often ± perhaps while in the company of friends ± eating more than we should or drinking a few too many glasses of wine? Unfortunately, it seems, quite a lot of people fall into this category as well, as recent statistics on obesity and alcohol-related hospital admissions pay testament (The King's Fund, 2010). How, then, do we explain this apparent inconsistency between making decisions and pursuing behaviours that are bene®cial for our health on the one hand and acting in ways that can clearly undermine our health on the other? The current chapter seeks to explain this inconsistency.
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Book Title
The Social Cure: Identity, health and well-being
Subject
Other psychology not elsewhere classified