The influence of performance feedback on goal-setting and mental effort regulation

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-74

  Venables, Louise ^a   Fairclough, Stephen H ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effort investment; Goal setting; Performance feedback; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650505557     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-008-9116-y     Document Type: Article

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