Many accounts of social influences on exercise participation describe how people compare
their behaviors to those of others. We develop and test a novel hypothesis, the exercise rank …

By comparing exercise and health domains, the current experiment extends recent findings
that within‐participant analyses of attitudes and subjective norms predict behavioral …

We tested the hypothesis that there are age-related differences in reasons for exercising.
Adults (n= 461), ranging in age from 18 to 86, were asked to indicate if they had considered …

Research suggests that people's perceptions of the typical physical activity behaviors of
others—descriptive norms—shape their own physical activity. However, prior work has …

This research extends previous work by demonstrating how the relationships between social
cognition and exercise are influenced by different personality types. The theory of planned …

Previous research into the role of exercise motives (what people want from exercise) has
overlooked the possible role of gains (what people get) and hence the possible benefits of …

Objective Individuals' decisions to engage in exercise are often the result of in-the-moment
choices between exercise and a competing behavioral alternative. The purpose of this study …

This study tested the hypothesis that the variables specified by social exchange theory
(perceived rewards of exercising, perceived costs of exercising, social and tangible …

Investigating implicit–explicit concordance can aid in understanding underlying mechanisms
and possible intervention effects. This research examined the concordance between implicit …

The present research linked social comparison processes to prototype models of risk
behaviour in predicting physical activity, controlling for perceived health threat and …