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Morisano et al., 2010: Reflecting, planning, and setting goals raised academic performance among struggling college students over 4 months

Reference:

Morisano, D., Hirsh, J. B., Peterson, J. B., Pihl, R. O., & Shore, B. M. (2010). Setting, elaborating, and reflecting on personal goals improves academic performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 255.
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Summary:

A series of online exercises in which struggling college students identified personal life goals and how they would implement these (i.e., goal-setting + implementation intentions) raised term GPA over the next four months, and reduced the percentage of students who ended the term less than full-time enrolled from 20% to 0%.

Psychological Process:

What Desired Meaning is At Stake?

What is the Person Trying to Understand?

Selves (My Own and Others')

Approach to Desired Meaning

What about it?

Changing beliefs about goals

Psychological Question Addressed

How will I accomplish my goals?

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Need

What is the Person Trying to Understand?

What Desired Meaning is At Stake?

What Desired Meaning is At Stake?

What About it?

Approach to Desired Meaning

Approach to Desired Meaning

How?

Psychological Question Addressed

Psychological Question Addressed

Psychological Question Addressed

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Greg Walton & Timothy Wilson