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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 The current study compared the effects of informative and confirmatory feedback on brain activation during negative feedback processing. For confirmatory feedback trials, participants were informed that they had failed the task, whereas informative ...
Yeon-Kyoung eWoo +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Time spent outdoors is associated with higher physical activity levels among children, yet it may be threatened by parental safety concerns and the attraction of indoor sedentary pursuits.
Hannah J. Wilkie +4 more
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Motivation of medical students: selection by motivation or motivation by selection [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2016 Medical schools try to implement selection procedures that will allow them to select the most motivated students for their programs. Though there is a general feeling that selection stimulates student motivation, conclusive evidence for this is lacking.
Wouters, Anouk +3 more
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Analysing motivation to do medicine cross-culturally : the international motivation to do medicine scale [PDF]
, 2009 Vaglum, Wiers-Jensen & Ekeberg (1999) developed an instrument to assess motivation to study medicine. This instrument has been applied in different countries but it has not been studied cross-culturally.
López-Roig, Sofia +16 more
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A neuro-computational account of procrastination behavior
Nature Communications, 2022 Most humans procrastinate to some extent, despite adverse consequences. Here, the authors show that how much an individual procrastinates, both in the lab and at home, relates to brain signals that reflect temporal discounting of effort cost.
Le Bouc Raphaël, Pessiglione Mathias
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Motivating Whistleblowers [PDF]
Management Science, 2017 Law-breaking activities within firms are widespread but difficult to uncover, making whistleblowing by employees desirable. We investigate if and how monetary incentives and expectations of social approval or disapproval from the public, and their interactions, affect an employee’s decision to blow the whistle when the social damage from the reported ...
Jeffrey V. Butler +2 more
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International 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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Journal 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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Open 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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Frontiers 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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