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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Mythic Aspects in the Tertiary Sector

, 2015
Questions of what motivates students and how they are motivated are major concerns in educational research. This chapter will focus on motivation in tertiary education, pinpointing what can be recognized as myths.
Harmes, Barbara A. H., Barbara A. H. Harmes   +1 more
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Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Organisational Contexts: A Motivation-Based Perspective

This paper develops a motivation-based perspective to explore how organisations resolve the social dilemma of knowledge sharing, and the ways in which different motivational mechanisms interact to foster knowledge sharing and creation in different ...
Lambermont-Ford, Jean-Paul, Lam, Alice
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Testing Theories of Reciprocity: Do Motivations Matter? [PDF]

One of the key issues for understanding reciprocity is how people evaluate the kindness of an action. In this paper we argue that the motivation driving an action plays an important role for the reciprocating response to that action.
Luigino Bruni, Luca Corazzini, Luca Stanca   +2 more
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Developing Reading Identities: Understanding Issues of Motivation within the Reading Workshop [PDF]

, 2013
Empirical evidence suggests a correlation between motivation and reading achievement as well as a decline in motivation as students progress through the grades.
Miller, Leigh
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Rewarding my Self. Self Esteem, Self Determination and Motivations

The paper presents a model where the self esteem and the self determination mechanisms are explicitly modelled in order to explain how they affect the intrinsic motivation and its impact on individual choices.
Bruno, Bruna
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Volunteers and conditions under which crowd-out effect could appear. An empirical evidence of psychological self-determination theory

The paper analyses if monetary rewards to continuative Italian volunteers decrease their intrinsic motivation undermining the satisfaction of psychological needs for autonomy and competence.
Fiorillo, Damiano
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Utilizing Students' Interests to Support Engagement and Intrinsic Motivation

, 2017
The following qualitative research study examines the question: How do a small sample of elementary school teachers draw on the interests of their students to increase intrinsic motivation and what outcomes have they observed from students as a result ...
Clarke, Danielle
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia [PDF]

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important.
Barr, Abigail, Serneels, Pieter, Serra, Danila   +2 more
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Intrinsic motivation to study and amotivation for most frequently performed activities: Association with increased non-specific psychological distress. [PDF]

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Shiba R, Ueno Y, Ando S, Nakatani H, Koike S.   +4 more
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Contracts and Motivations. The Case of Open Source [PDF]

The literature on Open Source phenomenon has revealed the crucial role played by both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. However an analysis attempting to formally explore this interplay is still missing.
Marcello Basili, Maria Alessandra Rossi, Antonio Nicita   +2 more
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