Does multitasking change how we think? The impact of specialized depletion from concurrent task performance on subsequent behavior

Rubin, Dan; Hildebrand, Diogo; Malloy‐Diniz, Leandro Fernandes

doi:10.1002/mar.21646

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“…This finding extends past work examining the elements that influence construal level (e.g., Bullard et al, 2019; Dogan & Erdogan, 2020; H. Lee et al, 2014; Rubin et al, 2022) by identifying that busyness perception can be an antecedent of construal level. According to our hypotheses, people tend to actively seek information that matches their cognitive state, so, when tourists perceive themselves to be busy, they will show more positive evaluation and preference for tourism advertising messages with low (vs. high) construal level.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Seize the Time! How Perceived Busyness Influences Tourists’ Preferences for Destination Advertising Messages

Yang

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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This study examines the impact of perceived busyness on the effectiveness of destination advertising based on construal level theory. Results from four experiments using two different tourism destination settings (i.e., water sports park and spa resort) indicate that low- (vs. high-) construal tourism destination advertisement is more effective for tourists with higher (vs. lower) busyness perception. This relationship is mediated by the need for time efficiency and benefit focus (serial mediation) and is strengthened when the achievement motivates (i.e., hope of success and fear of failure) of the tourist are high. Our study enriches tourism research by revealing that the effectiveness of destination advertising depends on a matching effect between advertising messages and tourists’ perceived busyness. It also has practical ramifications for destination marketing organizations in that it can enhance their understanding of tourists’ decision-making process with perceived busyness as an internal factor and thus help promote their destinations.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Seize the Time! How Perceived Busyness Influences Tourists’ Preferences for Destination Advertising Messages

Yang

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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“…When a person is exhausted from multiple simultaneous demands or an upsetting environment (e.g., coping with stress, regulating negative emotions, resisting temptations, or multitasking), their regulatory power will deplete, making it harder to manage negative feelings. As a result, when self‐control depletes, individuals are more likely to fail in subsequent self‐control efforts (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996; Hofmann et al, 2011; Rubin et al, 2022). When self‐control power depletes, individuals' behavior is driven to a greater extent by impulsive decisions and hedonic gratifications.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of emotions in food consumption choice: Systematic review and directions for future studies

Khoshghadam,

Rajabi

2024

Int J Consumer Studies

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Marketing researchers have extensively studied the causal influence of emotional state on food consumption. The present study offers a comprehensive systematic review of 111 articles related to the effect of emotions on unhealthy consumption over the past three decades—from 1993 to 2023. Applying the bibliometric coupling method identifies four main research themes in the marketing discipline: emotional eating: food as a coping mechanism, emotional eating: food as a reward, emotional eating: emotion as a multidimensional structure, and emotional eating: moderating effects of food sensory cues. Theoretical richness within each cluster is presented. In addition, the findings indicate that the marketing discipline has mainly relied on the proximate reasoning approach—explaining the causation and development of consumers' behavior—to describe the association between emotional state and food consumption choices. To broaden the scope of each research theme, we adopt the ultimate approach—explaining why a behavior exists—and focus on why unhealthy food consumption becomes a pattern of behavior. This study concludes by discussing the findings and offering several avenues for future research.

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“…This specific impact on accuracy is consistent with our prior findings showing that certain contextual factors that tax EF resources impact accuracy (but not speed of performance; Suchy et al, 2020), and that they deleteriously impact daily functioning (Niermeyer & Suchy, 2020b; Suchy et al, 2019), particularly if they fluctuate from day to day (Brothers & Suchy, 2022). Given that lack of routine and switching among multiple tasks likely also taxes EF resources (Beuckels et al, 2019; Rubin et al, 2022; Schneider & Anderson, 2010), it follows that it, too, would lead to IADL errors. In contrast, higher average level of daily busyness negatively impacted IADL timeliness , irrespective of participants’ level of EF.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

It’s complicated: Executive functioning moderates impacts of daily busyness on everyday functioning in community-dwelling older adults

Suchy

Mora

DesRuisseaux

et al. 2023

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Objective: Research shows that cognitively healthy older adults with mild executive function (EF) weaknesses are vulnerable to the negative impacts of life complexity (or daily busyness) when performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). However, past research assessed life complexity only at one timepoint, not capturing daily fluctuations. Importantly, fluctuations in busyness can themselves have deleterious impacts on functioning. This study extended past research by examining whether (1) variability in daily busyness would be more detrimental than level of busyness to performance of IADLs, and (2) EF assessed at home would moderate deleterious impact of busyness on IADLs. Method: Fifty-two community-dwelling older adults aged 60 to 95 completed daily IADL tasks and daily measures of EF and busyness via ecological momentary assessment, independently at home for 18 days. Results: (1) In a subset of participants with mild EF weaknesses, high variability in busyness across days was associated with fewer tasks completed correctly; and (2) across all participants (regardless of EF), high levels of daily busyness were associated with fewer tasks completed on time. Conclusions: Findings indicate that high variability in daily busyness, potentially reflecting a lack of daily routine, was associated with IADL errors among cognitively healthy older adults with mild EF weaknesses. Additionally, consistently high levels of busyness were associated with failures to complete tasks, or failures to complete them on time, regardless of EF. These results further support the Contextually Valid Executive Assessment (ConVExA) model, which posits that EF and contextual factors interact to predict functional outcomes.

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Does multitasking change how we think? The impact of specialized depletion from concurrent task performance on subsequent behavior

Cited by 5 publications

References 62 publications

Seize the Time! How Perceived Busyness Influences Tourists’ Preferences for Destination Advertising Messages

Seize the Time! How Perceived Busyness Influences Tourists’ Preferences for Destination Advertising Messages

The role of emotions in food consumption choice: Systematic review and directions for future studies

It’s complicated: Executive functioning moderates impacts of daily busyness on everyday functioning in community-dwelling older adults

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