Motivation Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Motivation Science is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for Role of Contingency in Reward–Emotion Interactions During the Categorization of Emotional Facial Expressions63
What is next for situated expectancy-value theory? A reply to our commentators.49
Batson on prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).27
Supplemental Material for Missing Out by Pursuing Rewarding Outcomes: Why Initial Biases Can Lead to Persistent Suboptimal Choices23
Supplemental Material for Measuring Subjective Mental Effort as an Aversive and Enjoyable Phenomenon22
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.21
Which insights can research on achievement motivation gain from network analysis? Comparing different network methods empirically.19
Dyadic motive fit: How individual differences in dyads’ motives predict performance and communication in joint action.18
Goal motives, mental contrasting with implementation intentions, and the self-regulation of saving goals: A longitudinal investigation.18
Supplemental Material for Pushing Reactance Theory: An Examination of the Reactance Process in the Context of Advice17
Ramadan fasting as a goal-pursuit: Why people fast, and how motives affect their experience.16
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.16
What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity.16
Does exposure to sedentary temptations activate physical activity goals? A high-powered replication study.13
Supplemental Material for Dyadic Motive Fit: How Individual Differences in Dyads’ Motives Predict Performance and Communication in Joint Action13
Supplemental Material for Leave to Fight Another Day: Having the Option to Switch Promotes a Persistence Trade-Off12
Supplemental Material for Episodic Binding of Approach–Avoidance Goals to Stimuli: On the Microgenesis of Stimulus-Motivated Action Tendencies to Approach and Avoid12
Supplemental Material for Motive-Modulated Attentional Orienting: Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attentional Avoidance of Signals of Interpersonal Dominance12
The force of craving: Approach movements relate to lateralized P3 amplitudes and sensation seeking.11
A mastery-oriented (and masterful) career: Some reflections on Carol Dweck’s legacy article.11
Emotional learning and psychopathic personality traits: The role of attentional focus and intention to learn.11
What to say to round up more donors, or bigger donations.11
Self-regulatory processes in striving for identity goals: Self-incompleteness shields eco-friendly vegans from temptations.10
The uncertainty-dissuasion model of reactance inhibition.9
Using dynamic item response theory and machine learning based on natural language processing to improve the reliability of the Operant Motive Test.8
Empowering change: A self-control perspective on how choice architecture interventions can promote sustainable behavior change.8
The homunculus in the room: A reply to Kunde and Janczyk (2024) and Hommel and Eder (2024).8
A fictional discussion between the late B. F. Skinner and Edwin A. Locke.8
Emotions, action tendencies, and the reinforcement sensitivity theory.7
Congratulations, so happy for you! Promotion motivation predicts social support for positive events.7
Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes.7
Supplemental Material for The Two Faces of Persistence: How Harmonious and Obsessive Passion Shape Goal Pursuit7
It is time to stop using the terminology “passive” fatigue.7
Episodic binding of approach–avoidance goals to stimuli: On the microgenesis of stimulus-motivated action tendencies to approach and avoid.7
From feeling to doing in social dilemmas: Emotional and behavioral responses to climate change.7
The legacies of the neuropsychology of anxiety for Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory.7
Why motivation for adhering to COVID-19 measures matters: Investigating time-lagged associations with epidemiological indicators.6
Supplemental Material for Metacognitive Awareness of Subjective Difficulty, Effort, and Frustration in Cognitive Conflict Contexts6
Supplemental Material for Poor Sleep Quality Is Significantly Associated With Effort but Not Temporal Discounting of Monetary Rewards6
Effects of habit and intention on behavior: Meta-analysis and test of key moderators.6
Understanding the desire to play violent video games: An integrative motivational theory.6
Latent profiles of high school academic intrinsic motivation: Relations to educational attainment, curiosity, and work and leadership motivation in adulthood.6
The roles of need satisfaction and passion in symptoms of behavioral addiction: The case of video gaming and gambling.6
Motive-modulated attentional orienting: Implicit power motive predicts attentional avoidance of signals of interpersonal dominance.6
Supplemental Material for Mentalizing in Reactance: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Freedom Threats5
Supplemental Material for Does Exposure to Sedentary Temptations Activate Physical Activity Goals? A High-Powered Replication Study5
Environmental control of human goal pursuit: Investigating cue-based forced responses in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm.5
Where are anxiety and personality in the brain?5
Implications of psychological reactance for clinical practice in psychiatry including a systematic review.5
Supplemental Material for Goal Motives, Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions, and the Self-Regulation of Saving Goals: A Longitudinal Investigation5
COVID-19 illegal social gatherings: Predicting rule compliance from autonomous and controlled forms of motivation.5
Rebels for a reason: How psychological reactance is goal-directed.4
School context and academic engagement: A longitudinal study on the mediating effect of the motivational self system.4
Supplemental Material for Motives and Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Predict Progress and Management of Goals in Parents4
Beyond counterarguing? Comparing multiple measures of cognitive resistance for psychological reactance using the avoidance, contesting, and empowering (ACE) resistance typology.4
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of longitudinal work passion profiles.4
Transtheoretical model technology-based interventions to improve health behaviors in veterans.4
Supplemental Material for The Differential Effects of Reward Prospect and Reward Reception: Dynamic Performance Adjustment Versus Stable Performance4
Defeminizing sustainability: How to boost men’s motivation for proenvironmental behavior.4
Cognitive mastery motivation antecedents of academic intrinsic motivation latent profiles: A longitudinal study from preschool to adolescence.4
Student attributions about interest-value shape academic decisions and recommendations.3
Placing motivation again at the heart of psychology: Commentary on Dweck’s contributions.3
Supplemental Material for Learning Contexts Matter: Having Value-Supportive Instructors Moderates the Efficacy of a Utility-Value Intervention in Community College Math3
Expectancy, value, . . . And more.3
The utility value of a broad, comprehensive theory of motivation.3
Measuring subjective mental effort as an aversive and enjoyable phenomenon.3
Supplemental Material for You Can(’t) Always Get What You Want: When Goal Persistence Requires Flexibility3
The cerebellum in aggression: Extending the cortico-limbic dual-route model of motivation and emotion.3
Role of contingency in reward–emotion interactions during the categorization of emotional facial expressions.3
Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS).3
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