mENTal CONTraSTiNG aNd ThE SElf-rEGulaTiON Of hElpiNG rElaTiONS

490 Gabriele Oettingen, Psychology Department, New York University, and Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Elizabeth J. Stephens and Doris Mayer, Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Babette Brinkmann, Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Preparation of this article was supported by German Science Foundation Grant Oe-237/12-1 awarded to the first author. We thank the motivation lab at New York University for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article, and we greatly appreciate the statistical advice from Niall Bolger and Willi Nagl. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Gabriele Oettingen, New York University Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: [email protected]. OETTINGEN et al. MENTAL CONTRASTING AND HELPING