Research paper
Harkin B, Webb TL, Chang BPI, Prestwich A, Conner M, Kellar I, Benn Y, Sheeran P. Does monitoring goal progress promote goal attainment? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychological Bulletin. 2016;142(2):198-229. doi:10.1037/bul0000025. PMID: 26479070.
Why we cite it
A meta-analysis of whether monitoring goal progress promotes goal attainment. Pooling 138 studies and 19,951 participants, all randomised to a monitoring intervention or a control, it finds that such interventions reliably increase monitoring frequency and — through that increase — improve goal attainment. The effect is a modest average from interventions, not a ranking among predictors of goal attainment.
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