Put Your Imperfections Behind You

Put Your Imperfections Behind You: Temporal Landmarks Spur Goal Initiation When They Signal New Beginnings.

People often fail to muster the motivation needed to initiate goal pursuit. Across five laboratory experiments, we explored occasions when people naturally experience enhanced motivation to take actions that facilitate goal pursuit and why certain dates are more likely to spur goal initiation than others. We present causal evidence that emphasizing a temporal landmark denoting the beginning of ...

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Defining osteopathic medicine: can you put your finger on it?

Rogers • Editorial A of us have been in situations like this: You may have trained in a major medical center, you may work there now, or you may be attending a large educational symposium. You look around and you observe, “I am as good as anybody else here, but there is something different.” The problem is, can you put your finger on it? As members of a “hands-on” profession, we osteopathic phy...

Overconfident: Do You Put Your Money on It?*

A group exhibits overconfidence if significantly more than half the group members declare to be better than the median in some characteristic. Overconfidence was found in verbal reports for a variety of characteristics and settings but was less often studied for choice behaviour. In an experiment we tested how perceived relative skill influences verbal and choice behaviour. Treatments varied ta...

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