Motivation Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Motivation Science is 4. 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
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
Just do it: Engaging in self-control on a daily basis improves the capacity for self-control.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
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
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 approach-motivational nature of reactance—Evidence from asymmetrical frontal cortical activation.10
Dimensional comparisons in the formation of domain-specific achievement goals.10
When countermessaging backfires: The role of obsessive passion in psychological reactance.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
A self-determination theory perspective on RIASEC occupational themes: Motivation types as predictors of self-efficacy and college program domain.8
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mental contrasting spurs energy by changing implicit evaluations of obstacles.4
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.4
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
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