7.4.1 Replicating the Original Laboratory Findings
After leaving graduate school, the first author wanted to replicate the findings from his dissertation regarding the superiority of specific, hard goals to ‘‘do best’’ and easy goals, but with variation. For example, for my dissertation I used tasks that involved generating uses for objects; one of the early experiments done at AIR examined goal setting effects on a complex psychomotor task (Locke and Bryan, 1966).