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Can Small Details Bring Big Success? Construal Levels As Academic Goal Strategies, Christopher R. Deitrick
Can Small Details Bring Big Success? Construal Levels As Academic Goal Strategies, Christopher R. Deitrick
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
One avenue to help students reach educational goals is implementation intentions, a tool encouraging
planning the “when, where, and how” of goal-oriented actions (Gollwitzer, 1999). However,
implementation intentions need validating outside of the laboratory (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006). To
help do so, they can be viewed through Construal-Level Theory (CLT), which explains why we may have
trouble setting intentions before we can fulfill them (Trope & Liberman 2010). A study was conducted
wherein 56 participants from a section of PSYC 330 either wrote about their college study habits or
completed implementation intentions preparing them to study for an upcoming exam. …