Browsing by Subject "motivation"
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Functional Brain Networks Underlying Anticipation in Motivated Behavior
(2018)Anticipation is a state of expectancy for something that will happen, and it allows us to use past learning to prepare for and make predictions about the future. Studies have shown that anticipation influences behavioral ... -
Health coaching for glaucoma care: a pilot study using mixed methods.
(Clin Ophthalmol, 2015)INTRODUCTION: Adherence to glaucoma medications is essential for successful treatment of the disease but is complex and difficult for many of our patients. Health coaching has been used successfully in the treatment of other ... -
Interoceptive Contributions to Motivational and Affective Modulators of Memory Formation
(2015)Biological drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual reproduction are potent motivators of behavior. Extrinsic rewards in the environment (i.e. food, drink, money) are also important behavioral and cognitive motivators. ... -
Losing the Will: Automatic Reactions to the Indifference Perceived in Others
(2009)Three studies examine individuals' implicit sensitivity to the absence of motivation perceived in others and how the nature of this sensitivity is moderated by individuals' own motivational states. Using a subliminal priming ... -
Motivating children's cooperation to conserve forests.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2022-04-18)Forests are essential common-pool resources. Understanding children's and adolescents' motivations for conservation is critical to improving conservation education. In 2 experiments, we investigated 1086 school-aged children ... -
The Motivational Benefits and Limits of Choice
(2009)This investigation explored the conditions that minimize the negative effects of lacking choice and maximize the positive effects of having choice. Four experimental studies were conducted with college students as participants. ... -
The Neurobiological Foundations of Altruism
(2008-05-01)This project advocates an urgent role for neurobiological evidence and models in the study of altruism. I argue for two claims: that neurobiological evidence should be used to constrain candidate scientific accounts of altruistic ... -
The Situational Adaptiveness of Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Achievement Goal Orientations
(2009)Previous research has largely highlighted the maladaptive consequences of holding an entity theory of intelligence and the adaptive consequences of holding an incremental theory (for reviews, see Dweck, 1999; Dweck & Leggett, ...
