The effects of participative versus assigned goal setting on intrinsic
motivation were investigated for interesting and boring tasks. Par
ticipative and assigned goal setting have no significantly different
effects on performance if the goal is held consistently difficult.
Participative and assigned goal setting have different effects on
intrinsic motivation at different levels of task interest.
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