document: Mustering motivation to enact decisions : how decision process characteristics influence goal realization Decision scientists tend to focus mainly on decision antecedents , studying how people make decisions . Action psychologists , in contrast , study post-decision issues , investigating how decisions , once formed , are maintained , protected , and enacted . Through the research presented here , we seek to bridge these two disciplines , proposing that the process by which decisions are reached motivates subsequent pursuit and benefits eventual realization . We identify three characteristics of the decision process -LRB- DP -RRB- as having motivation-mustering potential : DP effort investment , DP importance , and DP confidence . Through two field studies tracking participants ' decision processes , pursuit and realization , we find that after controlling for the influence of the motivational mechanisms of goal intention and implementation intention , the three decision process characteristics significantly influence the successful enactment of the chosen decision directly . The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are considered and future research opportunities are identified
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extractive_keyphrases: motivation goal realization decision process characteristics action psychologists goal intention research opportunities decision scientists
abstractive_keyphrases: decision enactment post-decision issues motivation-mustering potential decision process investment decision process importance decision process confidence