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Goal setting as a means of increasing motivation.

The current study was completed in 1967 and sought to discover how goal setting could influence motivation and performance on a task. Subjects were told to either “Do your best” on an initial test. On second and third tests, individuals were told to either “do your best” or to “meet or exceed their previous performance”. The study discovered that there was a significant increase in performance when individuals had goals. Conversely there was a significant decline in performance in the “do your best” group.

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