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Why people should run after positive affective experiences instead of health benefits

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  • Silvio Maltagliati

    (SENS - Sport et Environnement Social - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes)

  • Philippe Sarrazin

    (SENS - Sport et Environnement Social - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes)

  • Layan Fessler

    (SENS - Sport et Environnement Social - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes)

  • Maël Lebreton

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CISA - Swiss Center for Affective Sciences - UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva, Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, University of Geneva)

  • Boris Cheval

    (CISA - Swiss Center for Affective Sciences - UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva, Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3Lab), Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland Department of Public Health, Social and Environmental Determinants of Health)

Abstract

• Promoting health benefits is necessary but insufficient to foster sustained engagement in physical activity (PA). • Our formal decision-making model explains why health benefits hold a weak subjective value. • In this model, expected health benefits are jointly discounted by effort-discounting, delay-discounting, and beliefs distortion. • In contrast, positive affective experiences toward PA can reduce the perception of effort, provide more immediate consequences, and strengthen beliefs about health benefits. • Because affective experiences have the potential to tip the balance in favor of PA over sedentary alternatives, they should be at the core of PA promotion.

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  • Silvio Maltagliati & Philippe Sarrazin & Layan Fessler & Maël Lebreton & Boris Cheval, 2024. "Why people should run after positive affective experiences instead of health benefits," Post-Print halshs-04630339, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04630339
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jshs.2022.10.005
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