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Microbe Magazine, 2008
Reading anything by Simon Silver is a pleasure, and his erudite and fair-minded review of Craig Venter's autobiography is no exception (Microbe, January 2008, p. 46). I would comment on one small point however. Dr. Silver states that Irwin Chargaff (who usually spelled his name Erwin) found Jim Watson's book The Double Helix (1968) “so offensive that ...
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Reading anything by Simon Silver is a pleasure, and his erudite and fair-minded review of Craig Venter's autobiography is no exception (Microbe, January 2008, p. 46). I would comment on one small point however. Dr. Silver states that Irwin Chargaff (who usually spelled his name Erwin) found Jim Watson's book The Double Helix (1968) “so offensive that ...
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2008
Most people know the work of three psychologists: Freud, who was all about sex, Maslow, who built a pyramidal hierarchy of needs, and Herzberg, who said money was a hygiene factor.
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Most people know the work of three psychologists: Freud, who was all about sex, Maslow, who built a pyramidal hierarchy of needs, and Herzberg, who said money was a hygiene factor.
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Motivating the Demotivated Classroom
2011Findings from the educational literature and experimental observations, as well as case studies from field studies will be presented and discussed, in order to demonstrate how games are able to constitute a powerful educational and motivational medium in a SEN classroom.
Maria Saridaki, Constantinos Mourlas
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When Knowledge Is Demotivating
Psychological Science, 2014People find it appealing to have more options to choose from, but the provision of choice often leads to adverse consequences for decision makers’ motivation, satisfaction, and willingness to act. We propose that the effect of the number of choice options on willingness to purchase is moderated by people’s subjective knowledge (SK).
Liat, Hadar, Sanjay, Sood
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The demotivating effect (and unintended message) of awards
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2018It is common for organizations to offer awards to motivate individual behavior, yet few empirical studies evaluate their effectiveness in the field. We report a randomized field experiment (N = 15,329) that tests the impact of two common types of symbolic awards: pre-announced awards (prospective) and surprise awards (retrospective). The context is U.S.
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Alone, Unhappy, and Demotivated
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016This study explored how a mind-set associated with being alone affects self-regulation among individuals varying in neuroticism. Neuroticism is associated with a dualistic approach to the social world—evaluation apprehension alongside need for approval.
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Demotivering van hulpverleners
Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht, 2000De laatste tijd komen er geluiden dat hulpverleners hun motivatie gaan verliezen. Het fenomeen is echter al enkele jaren geleden gesignaleerd, maar er is onvoldoende aandacht aan besteed. Nu neemt het in omvang toe.
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Management Development Review, 1997
Your employees, if asked, will doubtless tell you that they really want to feel enthusiastic and to care about their work. But these same employees are often uninspired, show little initiative and simply play it “safe”. What can you do? The good news is that counterproductive practices that sap employees’ energy and undermine their morale can be ...
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Your employees, if asked, will doubtless tell you that they really want to feel enthusiastic and to care about their work. But these same employees are often uninspired, show little initiative and simply play it “safe”. What can you do? The good news is that counterproductive practices that sap employees’ energy and undermine their morale can be ...
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Demotivating Intentional Mentalism
Theoria, 2017Intentional Mentalism is the view that mental intentionality is primary to non‐mental intentionality and that the latter is derived from the former. In this article I examine three views which have been taken to motivate Intentional Mentalism: conventionalism as invoked by Searle, Gricean pragmatism, and the language of thought hypothesis. I argue that
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Sources of Teacher Demotivation
2006This study focuses on teacher demotivation, which is defined as the specific external causes that reduce the motivational basis of a behavioral intention or an ongoing action. High school teachers (N = 340) were asked to rank order the 3 factors that demotivated them most as a teacher.
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