MindCraft Challenge #12
Can people use evaluative conditioning to help them like new habits? There is some preliminary evidence that this might be possible. Conroy and Kim set up people’s cellphones with rotating wallpaper on the lock screen that paired positive images with images of an activity that they wanted people to engage in more often (physical exercise). People did report liking and engaging in physical exercise more often during the experiment.
Challenge:
Set a goal: increasing the frequency of a desired behavior or forming a new habit. Create a set of 4 or 5 wallpapers to set as a rotating gallery for your phone lock screen (see the first ‘Read More’ link for an example—the picture of the behavior to increase should be one-half of the screen, and a paired positive image should be the other half). Track the target behavior or habit during the week. Did the evaluative conditioning seem to help you change behaviors?
Read More:
Evaluative conditioning via lock screen:
https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000886
More about evaluative conditioning:
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-032420-031815