A study at Matthew Robison, University of Texas Arlington Asst Professor of Psychology has shown that goal setting is effective in sustaining attention of individuals but receiving feed back produces a much stronger effect. Robison points out that sustaining one's attention is notoriously difficult. " If you want to encourage people to maintain focus on a task, whether it be learning or job oriented, or if you are designing something that you want people to engage with, giving feedback about th...

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