Situations in which goal-directed self-talk was usedThe participants described a total of 679 situations. Answers ranged between 18and 1719 characters (M = 288.49, SD = 200.57). Only 13% of answers were below therequired 200 characters, whereas 87% of answers contained 200 characters or more.Hence, we could conclude that many participants engaged with the task far beyond theminimum effort we required from them.