The interaction of social influences and task experience on goals, performance, and performance satisfaction

A Social Information Processing Approach to Job Attitudes and Task Design

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Social Sciences, Organizational Behavior, Social Psychology +14

Toward a theory of task motivation and incentives

Edwin A. Locke · Organizational Behavior and Human Performance · 1968 · 2.4K citations

Management, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Goal setting—A motivational technique that works

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Management, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

Personality and behavior disorders.

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Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychology +12

Spurious Correlation: A Causal Interpretation*

Herbert A. Simon · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1954 · 406 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Behavioral Economics +12