According to the theory of goal setting and task performance, people are more likely to achieve difficult yet attainable goals than they are to achieve less difficult goals. In addition, the theory ...

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If you practice the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions, you know how frustrating it can be when that new, shiny motivation of the fresh year wears out a few weeks in. There are tons of advice, ...

When Caroline Adams Miller learned about the science of goal setting, her professional and personal life changed forever. It was 2005, and Adams Miller was a student at the University of Pennsylvania ...

The effectiveness of an intervention depends on its dose and on moderators of dose, which usually are not studied. The purpose of the study is to determine whether goal setting and theorybased ...

Well, it was going to be a "new year, new you." Then it was one thing after another getting in the way of your goals, and now January is coming to an end without you making so much as a dent in all ...