Alan Strathman

• PhD
• Professor at University of Missouri

The authors extended research linking individual differences in consideration of future consequences (CFC) with health behaviors by (a) testing whether individual differences in regulatory focus would mediate that link and (b) highlighting the value of a revised, two-factor CFC-14 scale with subscales assessing concern with future consequences (CFC...

This article hypothesizes that the individual-difference variable, need for cognition (NFC), can have opposite implications for priming effects, depending on prime blatancy. Subtle primes are argued to be more effective for high- versus low-NFC individuals. This is because for high-NFC individuals, (a) constructs are generally easier to activate, (...

ABSTRACT In this study we examined 15 personality and demographic differences between psychology students who took part in experiments at different times of the semester and different times of the day. In general, few significant relations were found and those that did emerge were small in magnitude. Females and freshmen signed up for experiments e...

This chapter reports research on a theoretically relevant personality variable known as the consideration of future consequences (CFC). It also provides a model of the antecedents and consequences of CFC. The model integrates work on CFC with past theory and research in the areas of broader personality dimensions, temporal construal, intertemporal...

Four studies involving 573 female and 272 male college students demonstrated that multiple forms and measures of aggression were associated with high levels of sensation seeking, impulsivity, and a focus on the immediate consequences of behavior. Multiple regression analyses and structural equation models supported a theoretical model based on the...

This study investigated whether the relation between alcohol outcome expectancies and alcohol use may be moderated by individual differences in private self-consciousness (PSC). Quantity/frequency of alcohol use, expectancies, and PSC in a sample of young adults were assessed annually over 4 years. Regression equations were used to predict alcohol...

Although past research has examined correlates of HIV testing, much of it has focused on demographic differences between tested and nontested individuals. The present study examined psychosocial differences between individuals seeking a voluntary HIV test at a college student health center and individuals who have never had an HIV test. Variables i...

In an examination of environmentally related behavior, the health belief model (HBM) was applied to the recycling behavior of a random sample of Missouri residents. The results indicated that both the basic and modified versions of the HBM significantly predict recycling behavior; significant predictors include perceived barriers, perceived likelih...

Numerous studies have demonstrated that alcohol outcome expectancies are strong correlates of various aspects of alcohol use. However, it has been suggested that forced-choice alcohol expectancy items may not measure the most salient anticipated effects of alcohol for an individual, and thus may create superficial responses. Additionally, research...

review research in which both affective and behavioral consequences of a person's thinking about counterfactuals with the future in mind was explored / report on experiments [with college students] targeting situational and dispositional determinants of future-oriented counterfactual thinking / the purpose of these studies was the assessment of the...

Consideration of counterfactual alternatives to negative outcomes, particularly when the counterfactuals change those outcomes, has repeatedly been shown to intensify regret and judgments of blame. Two studies examined the influence of the relevance of the counterfactual to future behavior on Ss' judgments of regret and self-blame after a negative...

Although Heiderian logic (F. Heider, 1958) proposes an inverse relationship between ability and effort, research has uncovered dramatic individual differences in the judged relationship between the two. Some view ability and effort as positively related; others view them as negatively related. Study 1 explored dysphoria as a moderator of this relat...

Proposes a new construct called consideration of future consequences (CFC), which is hypothesized to be a stable individual difference in the extent to which people consider distant vs immediate consequences of potential behaviors. Following a description of the construct itself, a measure of this individual difference is developed and validated. D...

Although Heiderian logic (F. Heider, 1958) proposes an inverse relationship between ability and effort, research has uncovered dramatic individual differences in the judged relationship between the two. Some view ability and effort as positively related; others view them as negatively related. Study 1 explored dysphoria as a moderator of this relat...

Two experiments examined the processes by which positive mood influences attitude change under high and low message elaboration conditions. To examine elaboration, Exp 1 included individuals who differed in their need for cognition, and Exp 2 manipulated the relevance of the message. In each study, Ss were exposed to a persuasive communication foll...

Researchers examining personality moderators of experimenter expectancy effects have focused on five hypotheses. Experimenters with stronger interpersonal control orientations, more positively evaluated interpersonal interaction styles, and greater ability to encode nonverbal messages are believed to be more likely to produce expectancy bias. Subje...

Discusses 2 current definitions of environmental psychology (EP) and proposes strategies for differentiating between EP types in the literature. EP is defined by D. V. Canter and K. H. Craik (see record 1982-06641-001) as the area of psychology that brings into conjunction and analyzes the transactions and interrelationships of human experiences a...

Discusses 2 current definitions of environmental psychology (EP) and proposes strategies for differentiating between EP types in the literature. EP is defined by D. V. Canter and K. H. Craik (see record 1982-06641-001 ) as the area of psychology that brings into conjunction and analyzes the transactions and interrelationships of human experiences a...

The role of counterfactuals in judgments of affective reactions to outcomes was examined. Subjects read about individuals who experienced gains or losses as a result of either deciding to take action and make a change or deciding not to take any new action. In addition, the salience of the counterfactual alternative was manipulated. Past results we...

The relationship between height and attractiveness was investigated using self-reports of dating behavior and subjects' ratings of photographs depicting males and females of different heights. Shorter females were preferred more as dates, were dated more frequently, and were rated as more attractive than taller females regardless of the height of t...

Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988. Includes bibliographical references.