Everything about Setting

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SettingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Educational Design Principles of Using AI Chatbot That Supports Self-Regulated Learning in Education: Goal Setting, Feedback, and PersonalizationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Magic of Thinking BigThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass MediaCited 6,071 times
5. Go sideways: Setting (narrative)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of genresA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media

  Maxwell E. McCombs, Donald L. Shaw · 1972 · Public Opinion Quarterly · 6,071 citations

• In Search of Golden Rules: Comment on Hypothesis-Testing Approaches to Setting Cutoff Values for Fit Indexes and Dangers in Overgeneralizing Hu and Bentler's (1999) Findings

  Herbert W. Marsh, Kit-Tai Hau, Zhonglin Wen · 2004 · Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal · 5,539 citations

• Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey.

  Edwin A. Locke, Gary P. Latham · 2002 · American Psychologist · 5,512 citations

• CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting

  Teresa C. Horan, Mary Andrus, Margaret A. Dudeck · 2008 · American Journal of Infection Control · 5,411 citations

• The ‘Trier Social Stress Test’ – A Tool for Investigating Psychobiological Stress Responses in a Laboratory Setting

  Clemens Kirschbaum, Karl-Martin Pirke, Dirk H. Hellhammer · 2008 · Neuropsychobiology · 4,884 citations

• Defining and Setting National Goals for Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Disease Reduction

  Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Yuling Hong, Darwin Labarthe · 2010 · Circulation · 4,338 citations

• A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and Its Implications for Standard Setting

  Paul M. Healy, James M. Wahlen · 1999 · Accounting Horizons · 3,438 citations

• Tectonic setting of basic volcanic rocks determined using trace element analyses

  J.A. Pearce, J.R. Cann · 1973 · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2,788 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Educational Design Principles of Using AI Chatbot That Supports Self-Regulated Learning in Education: Goal Setting, Feedback, and Personalization

  Daniel H. Chang, Michael Pin-Chuan Lin, Shiva Hajian · 2023 · Sustainability · 365 citations

• What are Nature-based solutions (NBS)? Setting core ideas for concept clarification

  Barbara Sowińska-Świerkosz, Joan García · 2022 · Nature-Based Solutions · 332 citations

• Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting

  Ori Magen, Jacob G. Waxman, Maya Makov-Assif · 2022 · New England Journal of Medicine · 274 citations

• Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact

  Edward W Gregg, James Buckley, Mohammed K Ali · 2023 · The Lancet · 240 citations

• Acceleration of cement hydration – A review of the working mechanisms, effects on setting time, and compressive strength development of accelerating admixtures

  Tobias Dorn, Oliver Blask, Dietmar Stephan · 2022 · Construction and Building Materials · 232 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Magic of Thinking BigDavid Joseph Schwartz · 1900
• MindsetCarol S. Dweck · 2006
• Theatrical design and productionJ. Michael Gillette · 1987
• The Lightning Thief / The Sea of Monsters / The Titan’s Curse / The Battle of the Labyrinth / The Last OlympianRick Riordan · 2009
• Shadow and Bone/Siege and Storm/Ruin and RisingLeigh Bardugo · 2015
• The Assassin's Blade / Throne of Glass / Crown of Midnight / Heir of Fire / Queen of Shadows / Empire of Storms / Tower of Dawn / Kingdom of AshSarah J. Maas · 2018
• Twisted GamesAna Huang · 2021
• The Lost Hero / The Son of Neptune / The Mark of Athena / The House of Hades / The Blood of OlympusRick Riordan · 1809

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