New Directions in Goal-Setting Theory

New Directions in Goal-Setting Theory

Goal-setting theory is summarized regarding the effectiveness of specific, difficult goals; the relationship of goals to affect; the mediators of goal effects; the relation of goals to self-efficacy; the moderators of goal effects; and the generality of goal effects across people, tasks, countries, time spans, experimental designs, goal sources (i.e., self-set, set jointly with others, or assig...

New Directions in Writing Theory

Over the last quarter of a century, writing researchers in Europe and America have been making fairly steady progress in improving our understanding of the cognitive and social processes involved in writing. New theoretical proposals have stimulated empirical studies, and new empirical findings have led to the reformulation and improvement of theories. In this chapter, I have chosen to examine ...

The Role of Attention in Goal Setting Theory

Dose relations between goal setting, theory-based correlates of goal setting and increases in physical activity during a workplace trial.

The effectiveness of an intervention depends on its dose and on moderators of dose, which usually are not studied. The purpose of the study is to determine whether goal setting and theory-based moderators of goal setting had dose relations with increases in goal-related physical activity during a successful workplace intervention. A group-randomized 12-week intervention that included personal g...

New directions in genetic algorithm theory

Recently several classical Genetic Algorithm principles have been challenged-including the Fundamental Theorem of Genetic Algorithms and the Principle of Minimal Alphabets. In addition, the recent No Free Lunch theorems raise further concerns. In this paper we review these issues and offer some new directions for GA researchers.