caa a22 4500 463217845 CHVBK 20180405153202.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9016-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9016-3 Talking about interest: exploring the role of social interaction for regulating motivation and the interest experience [Elektronische Daten] [Dustin Thoman, Carol Sansone, Monisha Pasupathi] The Self-Regulation of Motivation Model suggests that the experience of interest is an important source of human motivation and that people often strategically regulate the experience of interest. Previous work based on this model suggests that the social context may influence this process at multiple points. The present research focuses on whether talking to others about an activity experience is one means by which individuals evaluate how interesting that activity is. In Study 1 college students completed questionnaires that asked about real life experiences where working on an activity was more interesting because they worked with others. They described experiences that occurred first in any domain, and then that occurred specifically in the school domain. Results suggested that the more students talked with others about the activity after it happened the more they reported greater interest in the activity after the conversations. In the school domain, this was especially true for Latinos and for individuals who scored higher on the Relational Self-Construal scale. Study 2 employed a lab paradigm to control for the task that individuals talked to others about and to examine whether the nature of listeners' reactions influenced the speaker's interest even after the study was ostensibly over. First, replicating Pasupathi and Rich (2005, ‘Inattentive listening undermines self-verification in personal storytelling', Journal of Personality 73, pp. 1051-1086) college students who talked to a distracted friend about a computer game during the lab session reported a significant drop in interest relative to those who talked to attentive friends, regardless of whether the attentive listeners agreed or disagreed with participants. Importantly, interest ratings at a 4-6week follow-up were affected by the perceived responsiveness of listeners during spontaneous conversational retellings outside the lab, controlling for interest levels at the end of the lab session. Taken together, results suggest that social interaction plays an important role in regulating activity interest even beyond the immediate activity experience. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 interest nationallicence interpersonal emotions nationallicence intrinsic motivation nationallicence self-regulation nationallicence social construction nationallicence Thoman Dustin University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut Sansone Carol University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut Pasupathi Monisha University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut Journal of Happiness Studies Springer Netherlands 8/3(2007-09-01), 335-370 1389-4978 8:3<335 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9016-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9016-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thoman Dustin University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sansone Carol University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pasupathi Monisha University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Springer Netherlands 8/3(2007-09-01), 335-370 1389-4978 8:3<335 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer