Movement direction or change in distance? Self- and object-related approach–avoidance motions

Affective–Reflective Theory of physical inactivity and exercise

“…Likewise, research in experimental social psychology showed that activated evaluations could stimulate immediate approach-avoidance motor responses (e. g., Chen & Bargh, 1999;Seibt, Neumann, Nussinson, & Strack, 2008). These studies substantiated the assumption that there is a direct evaluation-behavior link and concluded that valenced behavior can be activated automatically by affective stimuli (Krieglmeyer, De Houwer, & Deutsch, 2013;see Phaf, Mohr, Rotteveel, & Wicherts, 2014, for a more skeptical perspective).…”

The embodied self: Making a fist enhances men’s power-related self-conceptions

“…For instance, approach and avoidance movements (e.g., pushing versus pulling, nodding or shaking one's head) may influence evaluative processing (Ito, Chiao, Devine, Lorig, & Cacioppo, 2006;Cacioppo, Priester, & Berntson, 1993;Chen & Bargh, 1999;Förster & Strack, 1998;Seibt, Neumann, Nussinson, & Strack, 2008), and perceptions of social justice (van Prooijen, Karremans, & van Beest, 2006). Likewise, the gesture of making a fist has been found to influence attributions of power to ambiguously acting targets (Schubert, 2004).…”

Informational affordances: evidence of acquired perception–action sequences for information extraction

“…Previous work on the effect of action goals has shown that goals such as approaching or avoiding a stimulus (e.g., Bamford & Ward, 2008;Seibt et al, 2008;van Dantzig et al, 2008) or the goal of producing a lateralized stimulus (e.g., Guiard, 1983;Hommel, 1993) can produce S-R compatibility effects. The present findings show that S-R compatibility effects can be produced even when the stimulus is nonlateralized (symmetrical cube) and the action effects relate only to the goal of efficient information extraction but have no other lateralized attribute (e.g., appearing close/ far, left/right).…”

“…The influence of action consequences on action preparation and execution have been shown experimentally in a variety of tasks, including approach/avoidance (e.g., Bamford & Ward, 2008;Seibt, Neumann, Nussinson, & Strack, 2008;van Dantzig, Pecher, & Zwaan, 2008), stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility (e.g., Grosjean & Mordkoff, 2002;Guiard, 1983;Hommel, 1993), and imitation (e.g., Wohlschlägger, Gattis, & Bekkering, 2010). The effect of goal-related action consequences is illustrated by affordances, whereby multiple action possibilities are automatically activated during object perception.…”