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Greater intrinsic motivation for engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors is associated with reduced postpartum weight. [PDF]

open access: yesObesity (Silver Spring)
Brown SD   +9 more
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Intrinsic motivation

Practical Neurology, 2023
The prevailing wisdom in neurological rehabilitation, and particularly for stroke, is that physical therapies are the key to improvements in function. Despite accepting the importance of ‘the motivated patient’, the lack of simple, proven ways to improve intrinsic motivation has hindered efforts to combine physical therapies with motivation.
Harry McNaughton, Vivian Fu
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

Review of Economic Studies, 2003
Summary: A central tenet of economics is that individuals respond to incentives. For psychologists and sociologists, in contrast, rewards and punishments are often counterproductive, because they undermine ``intrinsic motivation''. We reconcile these two views, showing how performance incentives offered by an informed principal (manager, teacher ...
Bénabou, Roland, Tirole, Jean
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Intrinsic motivation and flow.

Motivation Science, 2008
The performance of an activity can have positive incentives per se and individuals may engage in an activity purely for the enjoyment of it. The engagement due to the enjoyment of an activity is often called intrinsic motivation. Besides this understanding of intrinsic motivation, other conceptions are presented (self-determination, experience of ...
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Intrinsic motivation in dental care

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1992
AbstractThe aim of this work was to develop a method based on the idea of intrinsic motivation for analyzing motivation problems in dental care. A questionnaire dealing with intrinsic motivation was filled in by 207 women and 183 men. Factor analysis of the scale revealed the following dimensions of internal‐external motivation: independence ...
A M, Syrjälä   +2 more
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The Motivational Climate and Intrinsic Motivation in the Rehabilitation Setting

Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 2018
Context: The motivational climate created by the athletic trainer in rehabilitation may be critical in influencing athletes’ intrinsic motivation and other psychosocial outcomes in the rehabilitation and the recovery processes. Objective: To examine intercollege athletes’ perceptions of the motivational climate in the rehabilitation setting ...
Rachel E, Brinkman-Majewski   +1 more
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Intrinsically motivated hierarchical manipulation

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008
We present a framework for the programming of manipulation behavior by means of an intrinsic reward function that encourages the building of deep control knowledge. We show how this framework can be used to teach new manipulation skills in a hierarchical and incremental fashion. We demonstrate the contributions of this paper on a humanoid robot through
Stephen Hart   +2 more
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Competence progress intrinsic motivation

2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2010
One important role of an agent's motivational system is to choose, at any given moment, which of a number of skills the agent should attempt to improve. Many researchers have suggested “intrinsically motivated” systems that receive internal reward for model learning progress, but for the most part this notion has not been applied with respect to skill ...
Andrew Stout, Andrew G. Barto
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