Boosts for walking: how humorous messages increase brisk walking among cognitively fatigued individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A well-studied internal barrier to regular physical activity, and more specifically brisk walking, is cognitive fatigue. However, thus far little research examined how cognitively fatigued individuals can be motivated to exercise, more specifically to engage in brisk walking. This study investigates whether humorous intervention messages might be an effective strategy to motivate cognitively fatigued individuals to brisk walk, and through which underlying processes.

Methods

An online experiment was performed in which variation in cognitive fatigue was induced through mental arithmetic questions. Afterwards, participants (n = 250) recruited through Prolific, randomly received either humorous or non-humorous intervention messages related to brisk walking. Potential

SUBMITTER: Symons M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10775479 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature