Motivation Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Motivation Science is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
A classification of motivation and behavior change techniques used in self-determination theory-based interventions in health contexts.187
Building a science of motivated persons: Self-determination theory’s empirical approach to human experience and the regulation of behavior.105
The role of utility value in promoting interest development.22
A brief social belonging intervention improves academic outcomes for minoritized high school students.20
Adherence to COVID-19 measures: The critical role of autonomous motivation on a short- and long-term basis.19
On the mechanics of goal striving: Experimental evidence of coasting and shifting.17
Well-being as a resource for goal reengagement: Evidence from two longitudinal studies.16
Inhibitory control elicited by physical activity and inactivity stimuli: An electroencephalography study.15
The value of valuing math: Longitudinal links between students’ intrinsic, attainment, and utility values and grades in math.15
Just do it: Engaging in self-control on a daily basis improves the capacity for self-control.14
The influence of perceptions of intentionality and controllability on perceived responsibility: Applying attribution theory to people’s responses to social transgression in the COVID-19 pandemic.14
From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon.13
Bibliometric review of attribution theory: Document cocitation analysis.12
Performance trajectories for competitive swimmers: The role of coach interpersonal behaviors and athlete motivation.11
Effort in daily life: Relationships between experimental tasks and daily experience.11
Momentary emotion profiles in high school science and their relations to control, value, achievement, and science career intentions.11
The roles of need satisfaction and passion in symptoms of behavioral addiction: The case of video gaming and gambling.11
Appetitive motivation in depressive anhedonia: Effects of piece-rate cash rewards on cardiac and behavioral outcomes.11
The relation of parental support of emerging adults’ goals to well-being over time: The mediating roles of goal progress and autonomy need satisfaction.11
The dynamics of doubt: Short-term fluctuations and predictors of doubts in personal goal pursuit.11
Motivation in the wild: A critical review of the relationship between motives and motor performance.11
Punishment-modulated attentional capture is context specific.11
Dimensional comparisons in the formation of domain-specific achievement goals.10
When countermessaging backfires: The role of obsessive passion in psychological reactance.10
The approach-motivational nature of reactance—Evidence from asymmetrical frontal cortical activation.10
Embodiment of approach-avoidance behavior: Motivational priming of whole-body movements in a virtual world.9
Choosing task characteristics oneself justifies effort: A study on cardiac response and the critical role of task difficulty.9
Effects of habit and intention on behavior: Meta-analysis and test of key moderators.9
Task choice immunizes against incidental affective influences in volition.9
Prosocial motivation: A Lewinian approach.9
A longitudinal analysis of the relationships between students’ internalized symptoms and achievement goals.9
Implicit theories of interest regulation.8
Emotion as a process: Appraisal, emotion, and coping patterns across time.8
Collaborative autonomy: The dynamic relations between personal goal autonomy and perceived autonomy support in emerging adulthood results in positive affect and goal progress.8
Intrinsic motivation and flow.8
A self-determination theory perspective on RIASEC occupational themes: Motivation types as predictors of self-efficacy and college program domain.8
Expectancy-value theory to situated expectancy-value theory: Reflections on the legacy of 40+ years of working together.7
On trading off labor and leisure: A process model of perceived autonomy and opportunity costs.7
Some revenge now or more revenge later? Applying an intertemporal framework to retaliatory aggression.6
Examining the role of interpersonal relationship on attribution, emotion, and depression support provision: Experimental evidence from the People’s Republic of China.6
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and self-determination theory.6
COVID-19 illegal social gatherings: Predicting rule compliance from autonomous and controlled forms of motivation.6
Reward strengthens action–effect binding.6
Integrating and instigating research on person and situation, motivation and volition, and their development.6
A preregistered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort.6
The cerebellum in aggression: Extending the cortico-limbic dual-route model of motivation and emotion.6
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.6
Regulatory focus and thinking about the future versus reality.5
Supporting one’s own autonomy may be more important than feeling supported by others.5
Managing the motivation of others: Do managers recognize how to manage regulatory focus in subordinates?5
Control alters risk-taking: The motivating impact of action-effectiveness in different risk contexts.5
Don’t make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual.5
In it to win it? Comparative evaluation increases zero-sum beliefs.4
A generative legacy: SDT’s refined understanding of the central role of autonomy in human lives.4
Reward-seeking deficits in major depression: Unpacking appetitive task performance with ex-Gaussian response time variability analysis.4
Going the distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The vital role of identified motivation.4
Understanding the desire to play violent video games: An integrative motivational theory.4
A legacy unfinished: An appreciative reply to comments on self-determination theory’s frontiers and challenges.4
A cross-cultural investigation of metamotivational knowledge of construal level in the United States and Japan.4
Unpacking motivational culture: Diverging emphasis on communality and agency across STEM domains.4
The motivation of aggression: A cognitive neuroscience approach and neurochemical speculations.4
Mental contrasting spurs energy by changing implicit evaluations of obstacles.4
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.4
The measurement of goal dimensions: A critical review.3
Self-determination theory: Eminent legacy with boundless possibilities for advancement.3
Motive-modulated attentional orienting: Implicit power motive predicts attentional avoidance of signals of interpersonal dominance.3
Neuroendocrine mechanisms of aggression in rodents.3
Reflections on the legacy of self-determination theory.3
Motivated by default—How nudges facilitate people to act in line with their motivation.3
Environmental control of human goal pursuit: Investigating cue-based forced responses in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm.3
A context's emphasis on intellectual ability discourages the expression of intellectual humility.3
Simple pleasures: How goal-aligned behaviors relate to state happiness.3
Poor sleep quality is significantly associated with effort but not temporal discounting of monetary rewards.3
Construction and validation of the Interest Development Scale.3
Let go and give in! Self-licensing and the role of competing motivations.3
Missing out by pursuing rewarding outcomes: Why initial biases can lead to persistent suboptimal choices.3
Regulatory focus and (un)ethical behavior within an organization.3
Dominance desires predicting conspiracy beliefs and Trump support in the 2016 U.S. Election.3
Achievement motivation and motivational and volitional processes in sports.2
Social motivations’ limited influence on habitual behavior: Tests from social media engagement.2
Golf coaches’ mindsets about recreational golfers: Gendered golf experiences start on the practice tee.2
The ulna-to-fibula ratio as a marker of organizational hormone effects on implicit motive development: A high-powered preregistered replication.2
What to say to round up more donors, or bigger donations.2
The MASC: A novel multidimensional measure of self-control.2
Prosocial motivation can improve time-based prospective memory only under low cognitive load.2
Thoughts about actions and outcomes (and what they lead to).2
Just be yourself? Regulatory focus moderates the effects of societal standards attainment on personal well-being.2
A supine body posture reduces the error-related negativity: A test of a dissonance theory prediction.2
Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes.2
The comprehensive mindfulness experience: A typological approach to the potential benefits of mindfulness for dealing with motivational conflicts.2
Adult age differences in the effects of chronic mental fatigue on task-related fatigue, appraisals, and performance.2
Embodied anger management: Approach-oriented postures moderate whether trait anger becomes translated into state anger and aggression.2
Latent profiles of high school academic intrinsic motivation: Relations to educational attainment, curiosity, and work and leadership motivation in adulthood.2
Resolving incompleteness on social media: Online self-symbolizing reduces the orienting effects of incomplete identity goals.2
Emotional learning and psychopathic personality traits: The role of attentional focus and intention to learn.2
The impact of goal progress velocity on affect while pursuing multiple sequential goals.2
What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity.2
Philosophy of science, motivation and volition, and developing motivational assessment.2
On the multiplicity of prosocial motives. Commentary on Batson (2022).1
Provoked into action: Noise, irritation, and impulsivity as predictors of go/no go commission errors.1
Individual differences in students’ effort source beliefs predict their judgments of ability.1
Committed professionals who are also engaged parents: Can they self-symbolize across identity goals?1
Supplemental Material for Embodiment of Approach-Avoidance Behavior: Motivational Priming of Whole-Body Movements in a Virtual World1
Expectancy, value, . . . And more.1
Does the expression of personality traits in daily life satisfy psychological needs of older adults?1
Ramadan fasting as a goal-pursuit: Why people fast, and how motives affect their experience.1
The motivational factors underlying delay discounting.1
Developing a causally valid picture-story measure of sexual motivation: II. Effects of film clips.1
Autonomous versus controlled goal motivation differentially predicts goal progress and well-being through emotion regulation styles.1
Motivation and volition at work.1
You can(’t) always get what you want: When goal persistence requires flexibility.1
Coding implicit motives in movie clips: Descriptive statistics for a movie pool and coding reliability estimates.1
Self-regulatory processes in striving for identity goals: Self-incompleteness shields eco-friendly vegans from temptations.1
Society for the Science of Motivation Presidential Address: Can we harness motivation science to motivate ourselves?1
The two faces of persistence: How harmonious and obsessive passion shape goal pursuit.1
School context and academic engagement: A longitudinal study on the mediating effect of the motivational self system.1
Developing a causally valid picture-story measure of sexual motivation: I. Effects of priming.1
Congratulations, so happy for you! Promotion motivation predicts social support for positive events.1
Karmic forecasts: The role of justice in forecasts about self and others.1
Disentangling the impact of instructor mindset and demeanor on student experiences.1
Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS).1
Steroid hormones and severity of psychopathy in forensic patients.1
On being warm-hearted: Daily diary investigations of self-location and social functioning.1
What is next for situated expectancy-value theory? A reply to our commentators.1
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