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We assessed planning, prioritization, and completion of daily activities for 88 college students. Subjects listed and prioritized their goals for the following day, and 2 days later, they reported their accomplishments. Subjects also defined “planning” in a short essay. Self-reported good and poor planners did not differ in the proportion of goals completed or in sensitivity to goal priority, but definitions of planning did differ.
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Portions of this work were completed as partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Arts degree at Carleton College for the first author, who was supervised by the second. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Therese Huston with data analysis and Scott Preston and Lloyd Komatsu for their comments on an earlier draft.
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Simons, D.J., Galotti, K.M. Everyday planning: An analysis of daily time management. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 30, 61–64 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330397
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