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Job autonomy in relation to work engagement and workaholism: Mediation of autonomous and controlled work motivation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2018
Objectives This study integrates the Self Determination Theory and the Job Demands–Resource model in explaining motivational antecedents of 2 forms of excessive work: work engagement and workaholism.
Diana Malinowska   +2 more
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Can motto-goals outperform learning and performance goals? Influence of goal setting on performance and affect in a complex problem solving task

open access: yesJournal of Dynamic Decision Making, 2016
In this paper, we bring together research on complex problem solving with that on motivational psychology about goal setting. Complex problems require motivational effort because of their inherent difficulties.
Miriam Sophia Rohe   +3 more
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Acute aerobic exercise and attentional focus influence the self-positivity bias in emotional evaluation. Evidence from an experimental study

open access: yesOpen Psychology, 2022
The influence of aerobic exercise, as a possibly mood-enhancing experience, was investigated for its effect on emotional evaluation of self- vs. other-related emotional (e.g., my/his joy) or neutral (e.g., my/his notes) stimuli.
Meixner Friedrich, Herbert Cornelia
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Role of Perceived Competence and Task Interest in Learning From Negative Feedback

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the interactive effects of perceived competence and task interest on the cognitive and affective responses to negative feedback.
Dajung Daine Shin   +4 more
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Decoding of Processing Preferences from Language Paradigms by Means of EEG-ERP Methodology: Risk Markers of Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression and Protective Indicators of Well-Being? Cerebral Correlates and Mechanisms

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Depression is a frequent mental affective disorder. Cognitive vulnerability models propose two major cognitive risk factors that favor the onset and severity of depressive symptoms.
Cornelia Herbert
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The Seed of Goal-Related Doubts: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Roles of Failure and Expectation of Success Among Police Trainee Applicants

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Various theories on personal goal striving rely on the assumption that failure raises doubts about the goal. Yet, empirical evidence for an association between objective failure experiences and doubts about personal long-term goals is still missing. In a
Martin Bettschart   +4 more
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Socio-economic status and trajectories of a novel multidimensional metric of Active and Healthy Ageing: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Healthy ageing research largely has a unidimensional focus on physical health, negating the importance of psychosocial factors in the maintenance of a good quality-of-life. In this cohort study, we aimed to identify trajectories of a new multidimensional
Olivia S. Malkowski   +2 more
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Motivated explanation [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Although motivation is a well-established field of study in its own right, and has been fruitfully studied in connection with attribution theory and belief formation under the heading of "motivated thinking," its powerful and pervasive influence on specifically explanatory processes is less well explored. Where one has a strong motivation to understand
Patterson, Richard   +2 more
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Computational fingerprinting: a new approach to motivation deficit in neuropsychiatric diseases

open access: yesComptes Rendus Biologies, 2021
Motivation can be defined as a function that activates and directs the behavior toward goals. In neuropsychiatric conditions, motivation deficits such as apathy are frequent and interfere with treatment observance and clinical outcome.
Pessiglione, Mathias
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Neuro-computational account of how mood fluctuations arise and affect decision making

open access: yesNature Communications, 2018
Fluctuations in mood are known to affect our decisions. Here the authors propose and validate a model of how mood fluctuations arise through a slow integration of positive and negative feedback and report the resulting key changes in brain activity that ...
Fabien Vinckier   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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