Recent developments in the goal-setting literature have suggested a change in that area's research agenda. Specifically, theoretical developments, which examine how goal-setting affects perfor Mance, suggest that more attention be given to learning, task and chronic effects in goal-setting studies. This paper provides a detailed description of a research game that can be used to investigate these effects.
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