Do regularly physically active individuals differ in their decision-making from people who are not regularly physically active? Across five studies, we document a novel benefit of being regularly physically active for decisions that require the appropriate weighing of goal-relevant versus goal-irrelevant information. Usually, when faced with a mix of relevant and irrelevant attribute information, decision makers find it difficult to ignore the irrelevant information, and as such, "dilute" their judgments (i.e., judgments become less extreme). Such a dilution effect has been amply documented in past research. In contrast, we find that people who engage in regular leisure physical activity are less susceptible to dilution effects. Beyond the dilution effect, we also find similar benefits of being regularly physically active for decisions involving desirability-feasibility trade-offs. The results hold across multiple replicates, diverse samples, and different measures of regular physical activity. We also rule out several potential alternative accounts (e.g., demographics, personality traits). The results cannot be explained by physical effort alone as these benefits are observed only for regular leisure physical activity and not for occupational physical activity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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不仅仅是为了您的健康：定期锻炼者在不相关领域的决策。

经常锻炼身体的人与不经常锻炼身体的人的决策是否不同？在五项研究中，我们记录了定期进行身体活动以做出需要适当权衡目标相关信息与目标无关信息的决策的新好处。通常，当面对混合的相关和不相关的属性信息时，决策者发现很难忽略不相关的信息，因此“淡化”了他们的判断（即判断变得不那么极端）。这种稀释效应已在过去的研究中得到充分证明。相比之下，我们发现从事定期休闲体育活动的人不太容易受到稀释效应的影响。除了稀释效应，我们还发现，定期进行体育锻炼对于权衡可取性和可行性的决策也有类似的好处。结果适用于多个重复、不同的样本和不同的定期身体活动测量。我们还排除了几个潜在的替代账户（例如，人口统计、人格特征）。结果不能仅用体力劳动来解释，因为这些益处仅在定期的休闲体育活动中观察到，而不是在职业体育活动中观察到。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。结果不能仅用体力劳动来解释，因为这些益处仅在定期的休闲体育活动中观察到，而不是在职业体育活动中观察到。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。结果不能仅用体力劳动来解释，因为这些益处仅在定期的休闲体育活动中观察到，而不是在职业体育活动中观察到。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。