Thinking 'I can do better' really can improve performance

Telling yourself 'I can do better,' can make you do better at a given task, a study has found. Over 44,000 people took part in an experiment to discover what motivational techniques really worked. The researchers tested which physiological skills would help people improve their scores in an online game.

Read the complete article from Science Daily here: Thinking 'I can do better' really can improve performance

The full text journal article from Frontiers in Psychology

can be found here: Brief Online Training Enhances Competitive Performance: Findings of the BBC Lab UK Psychological Skills Intervention Study