Motivation Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Motivation Science is 0. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A classification of motivation and behavior change techniques used in self-determination theory-based interventions in health contexts.214
Building a science of motivated persons: Self-determination theory’s empirical approach to human experience and the regulation of behavior.135
The role of utility value in promoting interest development.25
A brief social belonging intervention improves academic outcomes for minoritized high school students.23
Adherence to COVID-19 measures: The critical role of autonomous motivation on a short- and long-term basis.21
The value of valuing math: Longitudinal links between students’ intrinsic, attainment, and utility values and grades in math.20
Effects of habit and intention on behavior: Meta-analysis and test of key moderators.19
Inhibitory control elicited by physical activity and inactivity stimuli: An electroencephalography study.18
Expectancy-value theory to situated expectancy-value theory: Reflections on the legacy of 40+ years of working together.18
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.18
Well-being as a resource for goal reengagement: Evidence from two longitudinal studies.17
Just do it: Engaging in self-control on a daily basis improves the capacity for self-control.17
From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon.15
The relation of parental support of emerging adults’ goals to well-being over time: The mediating roles of goal progress and autonomy need satisfaction.15
Punishment-modulated attentional capture is context specific.14
Bibliometric review of attribution theory: Document cocitation analysis.14
Momentary emotion profiles in high school science and their relations to control, value, achievement, and science career intentions.14
When countermessaging backfires: The role of obsessive passion in psychological reactance.13
The roles of need satisfaction and passion in symptoms of behavioral addiction: The case of video gaming and gambling.12
Embodiment of approach-avoidance behavior: Motivational priming of whole-body movements in a virtual world.12
Task choice immunizes against incidental affective influences in volition.12
Prosocial motivation: A Lewinian approach.12
A longitudinal analysis of the relationships between students’ internalized symptoms and achievement goals.11
The dynamics of doubt: Short-term fluctuations and predictors of doubts in personal goal pursuit.11
Dimensional comparisons in the formation of domain-specific achievement goals.11
The motivation of aggression: A cognitive neuroscience approach and neurochemical speculations.10
Choosing task characteristics oneself justifies effort: A study on cardiac response and the critical role of task difficulty.10
The two faces of persistence: How harmonious and obsessive passion shape goal pursuit.9
Poor sleep quality is significantly associated with effort but not temporal discounting of monetary rewards.9
Don’t make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual.8
COVID-19 illegal social gatherings: Predicting rule compliance from autonomous and controlled forms of motivation.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
Implicit theories of interest regulation.8
Social motivations’ limited influence on habitual behavior: Tests from social media engagement.7
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.7
Some revenge now or more revenge later? Applying an intertemporal framework to retaliatory aggression.7
Reflections on the legacy of self-determination theory.7
Examining the role of interpersonal relationship on attribution, emotion, and depression support provision: Experimental evidence from the People’s Republic of China.7
A legacy unfinished: An appreciative reply to comments on self-determination theory’s frontiers and challenges.7
Supporting one’s own autonomy may be more important than feeling supported by others.6
Neuroendocrine mechanisms of aggression in rodents.6
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and self-determination theory.6
A preregistered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort.6
A cross-cultural investigation of metamotivational knowledge of construal level in the United States and Japan.6
Regulatory focus and thinking about the future versus reality.6
The cerebellum in aggression: Extending the cortico-limbic dual-route model of motivation and emotion.6
A context's emphasis on intellectual ability discourages the expression of intellectual humility.5
Regulatory focus and (un)ethical behavior within an organization.5
A generative legacy: SDT’s refined understanding of the central role of autonomy in human lives.5
Control alters risk-taking: The motivating impact of action-effectiveness in different risk contexts.5
In it to win it? Comparative evaluation increases zero-sum beliefs.5
Reward-seeking deficits in major depression: Unpacking appetitive task performance with ex-Gaussian response time variability analysis.5
Understanding the desire to play violent video games: An integrative motivational theory.5
Managing the motivation of others: Do managers recognize how to manage regulatory focus in subordinates?5
The comprehensive mindfulness experience: A typological approach to the potential benefits of mindfulness for dealing with motivational conflicts.5
Self-determination theory: Eminent legacy with boundless possibilities for advancement.4
The effect of the intensity of withdrawal-motivation emotion on time perception: Evidence based on the five temporal tasks.4
Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes.4
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.4
Unpacking motivational culture: Diverging emphasis on communality and agency across STEM domains.4
Motivated by default—How nudges facilitate people to act in line with their motivation.4
Prosocial motivation can improve time-based prospective memory only under low cognitive load.3
Let go and give in! Self-licensing and the role of competing motivations.3
Resolving incompleteness on social media: Online self-symbolizing reduces the orienting effects of incomplete identity goals.3
Personal perspectives on mindsets, motivation, and psychology.3
Environmental control of human goal pursuit: Investigating cue-based forced responses in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm.3
Missing out by pursuing rewarding outcomes: Why initial biases can lead to persistent suboptimal choices.3
Construction and validation of the Interest Development Scale.3
The MASC: A novel multidimensional measure of self-control.3
Embodied anger management: Approach-oriented postures moderate whether trait anger becomes translated into state anger and aggression.3
School context and academic engagement: A longitudinal study on the mediating effect of the motivational self system.3
Motive-modulated attentional orienting: Implicit power motive predicts attentional avoidance of signals of interpersonal dominance.3
The measurement of goal dimensions: A critical review.3
Thoughts about actions and outcomes (and what they lead to).2
A supine body posture reduces the error-related negativity: A test of a dissonance theory prediction.2
The ulna-to-fibula ratio as a marker of organizational hormone effects on implicit motive development: A high-powered preregistered replication.2
Flexible control: Conflict mindsets reduce the association between trait measures of self-control decision-making and delay discounting.2
Adult age differences in the effects of chronic mental fatigue on task-related fatigue, appraisals, and performance.2
Social comparison information, performance expectancy, and performance goal adoption.2
The motivational factors underlying delay discounting.2
Just be yourself? Regulatory focus moderates the effects of societal standards attainment on personal well-being.2
Disentangling the impact of instructor mindset and demeanor on student experiences.2
Emotional learning and psychopathic personality traits: The role of attentional focus and intention to learn.2
On being warm-hearted: Daily diary investigations of self-location and social functioning.2
What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity.2
Beyond counterarguing? Comparing multiple measures of cognitive resistance for psychological reactance using the avoidance, contesting, and empowering (ACE) resistance typology.2
Autonomous versus controlled goal motivation differentially predicts goal progress and well-being through emotion regulation styles.2
Latent profiles of high school academic intrinsic motivation: Relations to educational attainment, curiosity, and work and leadership motivation in adulthood.2
Karmic forecasts: The role of justice in forecasts about self and others.2
What to say to round up more donors, or bigger donations.2
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of longitudinal work passion profiles.2
Society for the Science of Motivation Presidential Address: Can we harness motivation science to motivate ourselves?2
Developing a causally valid picture-story measure of sexual motivation: II. Effects of film clips.2
Coding implicit motives in movie clips: Descriptive statistics for a movie pool and coding reliability estimates.1
Expectancy, value, . . . And more.1
A mastery-oriented (and masterful) career: Some reflections on Carol Dweck’s legacy article.1
Autonomous and controlled motivation in students: An experience sampling study on multitasking, concentration, and affect from a self-determination theory perspective.1
Developing a causally valid picture-story measure of sexual motivation: I. Effects of priming.1
Motives and mental contrasting with implementation intentions predict progress and management of goals in parents.1
Committed professionals who are also engaged parents: Can they self-symbolize across identity goals?1
The utility value of a broad, comprehensive theory of motivation.1
Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS).1
Self-regulatory processes in striving for identity goals: Self-incompleteness shields eco-friendly vegans from temptations.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
Provoked into action: Noise, irritation, and impulsivity as predictors of go/no go commission errors.1
Motivation matters: Autonomous motivation sustains the happiness from prosocial behavior.1
Leave to fight another day: Having the option to switch promotes a persistence trade-off.1
You can(’t) always get what you want: When goal persistence requires flexibility.1
Past due! Racializing aspects of situated expectancy-value theory through the lens of critical race theory.1
Steroid hormones and severity of psychopathy in forensic patients.1
Self-determination theory shows that free will matters.1
What is next for situated expectancy-value theory? A reply to our commentators.1
On the multiplicity of prosocial motives. Commentary on Batson (2022).1
The context-sensitive use of task enrichment to promote self-control: The role of metacognition and trait self-control.1
Congratulations, so happy for you! Promotion motivation predicts social support for positive events.1
The role of metamotivational knowledge in the regulation of motivation.1
Freedom under constraints: Accentuating the positive in the time of corona.0
Cognitive mastery motivation antecedents of academic intrinsic motivation latent profiles: A longitudinal study from preschool to adolescence.0
Supplemental Material for Goal Motives, Approach/Avoidance Appraisals, Psychological Needs, and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis0
Supplemental Material for Missing Out by Pursuing Rewarding Outcomes: Why Initial Biases Can Lead to Persistent Suboptimal Choices0
Supplemental Material for A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationships Between Students’ Internalized Symptoms and Achievement Goals0
Metamotivational knowledge of others’ achievement goals in a work context.0
The legacies of the neuropsychology of anxiety for Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory.0
Supplemental Material for The Differential Effects of Reward Prospect and Reward Reception: Dynamic Performance Adjustment Versus Stable Performance0
Supplemental Material for Autonomous Versus Controlled Goal Motivation Differentially Predicts Goal Progress and Well-Being Through Emotion Regulation Styles0
Does exposure to sedentary temptations activate physical activity goals? A high-powered replication study.0
Role of contingency in reward–emotion interactions during the categorization of emotional facial expressions.0
"Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS)": Correction.0
Supplemental Material for Does Exposure to Sedentary Temptations Activate Physical Activity Goals? A High-Powered Replication Study0
Supplemental Material for Effects of Habit and Intention on Behavior: Meta-Analysis and Test of Key Moderators0
From action initiation to persistence: A Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer analysis for cue-based goal pursuit.0
Supplemental Material for Disentangling the Impact of Instructor Mindset and Demeanor on Student Experiences0
Mentalizing in reactance: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of freedom threats.0
Supplemental Material for Managing the Motivation of Others: Do Managers Recognize How to Manage Regulatory Focus in Subordinates?0
Closeness regulation in couples: The temporal dynamics and dissociations of closeness frustration and closeness surfeit.0
Supplemental Material for Motives and Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Predict Progress and Management of Goals in Parents0
Supplemental Material for Choosing Task Characteristics Oneself Justifies Effort: A Study on Cardiac Response and the Critical Role of Task Difficulty0
Supplemental Material for The Amygdala and Appraised Concern-Relevance: Initial Evidence That Intrinsic Motivation Modulates Amygdala Response to Otherwise Neutral Stimuli0
Supplemental Material for Inhibitory Control Elicited by Physical Activity and Inactivity Stimuli: An Electroencephalography Study0
Supplemental Material for Episodic Binding of Approach–Avoidance Goals to Stimuli: On the Microgenesis of Stimulus-Motivated Action Tendencies to Approach and Avoid0
Supplemental Material for Does the Expression of Personality Traits in Daily Life Satisfy Psychological Needs of Older Adults?0
Interpersonal relations, group processes, and prosocial motivation: Expanding the perspective. Commentary on Batson (2022).0
Expressing and developing wisdom: A self-determination theory approach.0
Supplemental Material for Leave to Fight Another Day: Having the Option to Switch Promotes a Persistence Trade-Off0
Q: What is the recipe for defense? A: Threat, anxiety, and approach motivation.0
When facilitating a group member’s (versus one’s own) progress increases motivation in group-level goal pursuit.0
I had coffee (actually tea) with Clark Hull.0
Supplemental Material for Motive-Modulated Attentional Orienting: Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attentional Avoidance of Signals of Interpersonal Dominance0
Psilocybin legalization in the United States and psychological reactance: A test of evidence uncertainty, controlling language, and an ambiguous call to action.0
Beyond achievement: Transformation mindset enhances authenticity after goal success.0
Defeminizing sustainability: How to boost men’s motivation for proenvironmental behavior.0
The reactive spiral: An initial empirical assessment.0
Supplemental Material for Environmental Control of Human Goal Pursuit: Investigating Cue-Based Forced Responses in a Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer Paradigm0
Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure.0
A fresh term of service at Motivation Science.0
Commentary on Personal perspectives on mindsets, motivation, and psychology by Carol S. Dweck.0
Supplemental Material for The Two Faces of Persistence: How Harmonious and Obsessive Passion Shape Goal Pursuit0
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulatory Thought Across Time and Domains0
Goal motives, approach/avoidance appraisals, psychological needs, and well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.0
The reflection of motive dispositions in everyday agentic motivational states.0
Is task switching avoided to save effort or time? Shorter intertrial durations following task switches increase the willingness to switch tasks.0
Self-regulatory thought across time and domains.0
Using dynamic item response theory and machine learning based on natural language processing to improve the reliability of the Operant Motive Test.0
Supplemental Material for The Force of Craving: Approach Movements Relate to Lateralized P3 Amplitudes and Sensation Seeking0
Why do I act for the environment? Socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between climate change beliefs and sustainable actions.0
Supplemental Material for Regulatory Focus and Thinking About the Future Versus Reality0
Supplemental Material for Is Task Switching Avoided to Save Effort or Time? Shorter Intertrial Durations Following Task Switches Increase the Willingness to Switch Tasks0
Supplemental Material for Fostering Preservice Teachers’ Research-Related Beliefs and Motivation With Growth Mindset and Utility Value Interventions0
The amygdala and appraised concern-relevance: Initial evidence that intrinsic motivation modulates amygdala response to otherwise neutral stimuli.0
Acknowledgment0
Scientist’s progress: A comment on Carol Dweck’s legacy.0
Supplemental Material for You Can(’t) Always Get What You Want: When Goal Persistence Requires Flexibility0
Useful and affordable? How costs and benefits uniquely shape motivated emotion regulation.0
Supplemental Material for Congratulations, So Happy for You! Promotion Motivation Predicts Social Support for Positive Events0
Supplemental Material for Social Motivations’ Limited Influence on Habitual Behavior: Tests From Social Media Engagement0
Mapping the dose–response relationship between monetary reward and cognitive performance.0
Acknowledgment0
Supplemental Material for Why Motivation for Adhering to COVID-19 Measures Matters: Investigating Time-Lagged Associations With Epidemiological Indicators0
Supplemental Material for Why Do I Act for the Environment? Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Sustainable Actions0
Supplemental Material for When Will We Join the Road Blockade? (Non)Conformity to Radical Climate Protest Norms Under Salient Threat to Personal Control0
Supplemental Material for Self-Concordant Goal-Striving as Internalized Motivation: Benefits Beyond Person-Goal Fit0
Supplemental Material for The Dynamics of Doubt: Short-Term Fluctuations and Predictors of Doubts in Personal Goal Pursuit0
Supplemental Material for Coding Implicit Motives in Movie Clips: Descriptive Statistics for a Movie Pool and Coding Reliability Estimates0
Implications of psychological reactance for clinical practice in psychiatry including a systematic review.0
Supplemental Material for On the Nature, Predictors, and Outcomes of Longitudinal Work Passion Profiles0
Supplemental Material for A Supine Body Posture Reduces the Error-Related Negativity: A Test of a Dissonance Theory Prediction0
Self-concordant goal-striving as internalized motivation: Benefits beyond person-goal fit.0
Retribution and utilitarianism as motives for children’s third-party punishment: An information-seeking approach.0
Supplemental Material for Emotional Learning and Psychopathic Personality Traits: The Role of Attentional Focus and Intention to Learn0
Goal motives, mental contrasting with implementation intentions, and the self-regulation of saving goals: A longitudinal investigation.0
Learning from failure.0
Pushing reactance theory: An examination of the reactance process in the context of advice.0
Supplemental Material for Adherence to COVID-19 Measures: The Critical Role of Autonomous Motivation on a Short- and Long-Term Basis0
When will we join the road blockade? (non)conformity to radical climate protest norms under salient threat to personal control.0
Supplemental Material for Developing a Causally Valid Picture-Story Measure of Sexual Motivation: II. Effects of Film Clips0
Breaking down silos in motivation science.0
Economic inequality and student outcomes: What we know and where to go from here.0
Episodic binding of approach–avoidance goals to stimuli: On the microgenesis of stimulus-motivated action tendencies to approach and avoid.0
Supplemental Material for Individual Concerns Modulate Reward-Related Learning and Behaviors Involving Sexual Outcomes0
Towards a more complex, dynamic, and personalized perspective on development.0
Blind to threat: The presence of temporary goals prevents attention to imminent threat already at early stages of attention allocation.0
Supplemental Material for From Action Initiation to Persistence: A Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer Analysis for Cue-Based Goal Pursuit0
Supplemental Material for Role of Contingency in Reward–Emotion Interactions During the Categorization of Emotional Facial Expressions0
Supplemental Material for Beyond Achievement: Transformation Mindset Enhances Authenticity After Goal Success0
The force of craving: Approach movements relate to lateralized P3 amplitudes and sensation seeking.0
Supplemental Material for When Facilitating a Group Member’s (Versus One’s Own) Progress Increases Motivation in Group-Level Goal Pursuit0
Supplemental Material for Pushing Reactance Theory: An Examination of the Reactance Process in the Context of Advice0
Supplemental Material for Understanding Aggression in Adolescence by Studying the Neurobiological Stress System: A Systematic Review0
Supplemental Material for Motivation Matters: Autonomous Motivation Sustains the Happiness From Prosocial Behavior0
Student attributions about interest-value shape academic decisions and recommendations.0
Fostering preservice teachers’ research-related beliefs and motivation with growth mindset and utility value interventions.0
Supplemental Material for Poor Sleep Quality Is Significantly Associated With Effort but Not Temporal Discounting of Monetary Rewards0
Supplemental Material for Autonomous and Controlled Motivation in Students: An Experience Sampling Study on Multitasking, Concentration, and Affect From a Self-Determination Theory Perspective0
Supplemental Material for Exploring the Role of Goal-Dependent Processes in Action Slips Under Time Pressure0
Batson on prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).0
Supplemental Material for Goal Motives, Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions, and the Self-Regulation of Saving Goals: A Longitudinal Investigation0
Supplemental Material for Mapping the Dose–Response Relationship Between Monetary Reward and Cognitive Performance0
The differential effects of reward prospect and reward reception: Dynamic performance adjustment versus stable performance.0
Supplemental Material for Developing a Causally Valid Picture-Story Measure of Sexual Motivation: I. Effects of Priming0
Being unengaged at work but still dedicating time and energy: A longitudinal study.0
Supplemental Material for Unpacking Motivational Culture: Diverging Emphasis on Communality and Agency Across STEM Domains0
Pavlovian cues boost self-regulation: Predicting success with conditioned stimuli.0
Thoughts on a thoughtful theory of prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).0
Acknowledgment0
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulatory Processes in Striving for Identity Goals: Self-Incompleteness Shields Eco-Friendly Vegans From Temptations0
Supplemental Material for The Roles of Need Satisfaction and Passion in Symptoms of Behavioral Addiction: The Case of Video Gaming and Gambling0
Supplemental Material for Useful and Affordable? How Costs and Benefits Uniquely Shape Motivated Emotion Regulation0
Supplemental Material for Some Revenge Now or More Revenge Later? Applying an Intertemporal Framework to Retaliatory Aggression0
Supplemental Material for Just Be Yourself? Regulatory Focus Moderates the Effects of Societal Standards Attainment on Personal Well-Being0
Your prosody matters! The effect of controlling tone of voice on listeners’ experienced pressure, closeness, and intention to collaborate with the speaker.0
From feeling to doing in social dilemmas: Emotional and behavioral responses to climate change.0
The uncertainty-dissuasion model of reactance inhibition.0
Supplemental Material for From Ego Depletion to Self-Control Fatigue: A Review of Criticisms Along With New Perspectives for the Investigation and Replication of a Multicomponent Phenomenon0
Supplemental Material for Mentalizing in Reactance: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Freedom Threats0
Help is needed. Commentary on Batson (2022).0
Supplemental Material for Control Alters Risk-Taking: The Motivating Impact of Action-Effectiveness in Different Risk Contexts0
Goal-colored glasses: Goal instrumentality shapes when and with whom shared reality emerges.0
Agentic engagement: Transcending passive motivation.0
Supplemental Material for Closeness Regulation in Couples: The Temporal Dynamics and Dissociations of Closeness Frustration and Closeness Surfeit0
Supplemental Material for Goal-Colored Glasses: Goal Instrumentality Shapes When and With Whom Shared Reality Emerges0
Supplemental Material for Motivated by Default—How Nudges Facilitate People to Act in Line With Their Motivation0
Do I want this job? Integrating research across psychological subfields to examine how individuals think about perceived values during career decision making.0
Supplemental Material for Pavlovian Cues Boost Self-Regulation: Predicting Success With Conditioned Stimuli0
Placing motivation again at the heart of psychology: Commentary on Dweck’s contributions.0
Supplemental Material for Q: What Is the Recipe for Defense? A: Threat, Anxiety, and Approach Motivation0
Why motivation for adhering to COVID-19 measures matters: Investigating time-lagged associations with epidemiological indicators.0
A fictional discussion between the late B. F. Skinner and Edwin A. Locke.0
Moral self-regulation and recycling: Does feeling guilty make us want to recycle more?0
Supplemental Material for Metamotivational Knowledge of Others’ Achievement Goals in a Work Context0
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