Effects of Wearable Fitness Trackers and Activity Adequacy Mindsets on Affect, Behavior, and Health: Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial

Octavia Hedwig Zahrt   ¹ , PhD ;   Kristopher Evans   ² , BA ;   Elizabeth Murnane   ³ , PhD ;   Erik Santoro   ² , BA ;   Michael Baiocchi   ⁴ , PhD ;   James Landay   ³ , PhD ;   Scott Delp   ⁵ , PhD ;   Alia Crum   ² , PhD

¹ Department of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, United States

² Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

³ Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States