News Finding: They recognize when they're procrastinating.
Paper Finding: However, since no group average even reached the level of the moderate goal, the hard goal may have been totally unrealistic.
News Context: When you have that much clarity around your goal, your chances of hitting the mark increase dramatically. They recognize when they're procrastinating. It's important to figure out the reasons for your procrastination.
Paper Context: The same narrow range of difficulty (very difficult to moderately difficult) may explain the negative results of using a time sheet computation task. However, since no group average even reached the level of the moderate goal, the hard goal may have been totally unrealistic. In contrast, expectancy theory predicts (other things being equal) a positive relation between expectancy and performance, the opposite of the goal theory prediction.