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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fostering preservice teachers’ research-related beliefs and motivation with growth mindset and utility value interventions.172
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 Phenomenon43
Supplemental Material for Just Be Yourself? Regulatory Focus Moderates the Effects of Societal Standards Attainment on Personal Well-Being39
Supplemental Material for The Amygdala and Appraised Concern-Relevance: Initial Evidence That Intrinsic Motivation Modulates Amygdala Response to Otherwise Neutral Stimuli21
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulatory Processes in Striving for Identity Goals: Self-Incompleteness Shields Eco-Friendly Vegans From Temptations21
Batson on prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).20
Do I want this job? Integrating research across psychological subfields to examine how individuals think about perceived values during career decision making.19
Autonomous and controlled motivation in students: An experience sampling study on multitasking, concentration, and affect from a self-determination theory perspective.19
Mentalizing in reactance: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of freedom threats.18
Choosing task characteristics oneself justifies effort: A study on cardiac response and the critical role of task difficulty.17
Mental contrasting of a feared future and uptake of initial COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent booster shots: Two randomized controlled trials.17
Society for the Science of Motivation Presidential Address: Can we harness motivation science to motivate ourselves?15
Q: What is the recipe for defense? A: Threat, anxiety, and approach motivation.15
Defeminizing sustainability: How to boost men’s motivation for proenvironmental behavior.14
Why do I act for the environment? Socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between climate change beliefs and sustainable actions.13
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.12
Self-determination theory shows that free will matters.12
Task choice immunizes against incidental affective influences in volition.12
What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity.12
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.11
"Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS)": Correction.11
Ramadan fasting as a goal-pursuit: Why people fast, and how motives affect their experience.11
What is next for situated expectancy-value theory? A reply to our commentators.10
The amygdala and appraised concern-relevance: Initial evidence that intrinsic motivation modulates amygdala response to otherwise neutral stimuli.9
Does the expression of personality traits in daily life satisfy psychological needs of older adults?8
Learning contexts matter: Having value-supportive instructors moderates the efficacy of a utility-value intervention in community college math.8
Flexible control: Conflict mindsets reduce the association between trait measures of self-control decision-making and delay discounting.8
Useful and affordable? How costs and benefits uniquely shape motivated emotion regulation.8
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of longitudinal work passion profiles.8
Collaborative autonomy: The dynamic relations between personal goal autonomy and perceived autonomy support in emerging adulthood results in positive affect and goal progress.7
On being warm-hearted: Daily diary investigations of self-location and social functioning.7
Supplemental Material for Metamotivational Knowledge of Others’ Achievement Goals in a Work Context7
Supplemental Material for The Differential Effects of Reward Prospect and Reward Reception: Dynamic Performance Adjustment Versus Stable Performance7
Personal perspectives on mindsets, motivation, and psychology.7
Supplemental Material for Missing Out by Pursuing Rewarding Outcomes: Why Initial Biases Can Lead to Persistent Suboptimal Choices7
Supplemental Material for Role of Contingency in Reward–Emotion Interactions During the Categorization of Emotional Facial Expressions7
Is task switching avoided to save effort or time? Shorter intertrial durations following task switches increase the willingness to switch tasks.7
Supplemental Material for Pushing Reactance Theory: An Examination of the Reactance Process in the Context of Advice7
Don’t make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual.6
Supplemental Material for Why Motivation for Adhering to COVID-19 Measures Matters: Investigating Time-Lagged Associations With Epidemiological Indicators6
The two faces of persistence: How harmonious and obsessive passion shape goal pursuit.6
Adult age differences in the effects of chronic mental fatigue on task-related fatigue, appraisals, and performance.6
Supplemental Material for Measuring Subjective Mental Effort as an Aversive and Enjoyable Phenomenon5
Building a science of motivated persons: Self-determination theory’s empirical approach to human experience and the regulation of behavior.5
Goal motives, mental contrasting with implementation intentions, and the self-regulation of saving goals: A longitudinal investigation.5
Breaking down silos in motivation science.5
Inhibitory control elicited by physical activity and inactivity stimuli: An electroencephalography study.5
From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon.5
Thoughts about “Thoughts about actions and outcomes”: Comment on Custers (2023).5
Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure.5
Supplemental Material for Self-Concordant Goal-Striving as Internalized Motivation: Benefits Beyond Person-Goal Fit4
Supplemental Material for On the Nature, Predictors, and Outcomes of Longitudinal Work Passion Profiles4
Supplemental Material for Motive-Modulated Attentional Orienting: Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attentional Avoidance of Signals of Interpersonal Dominance4
Supplemental Material for Useful and Affordable? How Costs and Benefits Uniquely Shape Motivated Emotion Regulation4
Supplemental Material for Leave to Fight Another Day: Having the Option to Switch Promotes a Persistence Trade-Off4
Supplemental Material for Motives and Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Predict Progress and Management of Goals in Parents4
Supplemental Material for Episodic Binding of Approach–Avoidance Goals to Stimuli: On the Microgenesis of Stimulus-Motivated Action Tendencies to Approach and Avoid4
Supplemental Material for Emotional Learning and Psychopathic Personality Traits: The Role of Attentional Focus and Intention to Learn4
Supplemental Material for Is Task Switching Avoided to Save Effort or Time? Shorter Intertrial Durations Following Task Switches Increase the Willingness to Switch Tasks3
What to say to round up more donors, or bigger donations.3
Using norm networks to map cultural differences in predictors of proenvironmental behavior in the United States and India.3
Scientist’s progress: A comment on Carol Dweck’s legacy.3
Supplemental Material for Autonomous and Controlled Motivation in Students: An Experience Sampling Study on Multitasking, Concentration, and Affect From a Self-Determination Theory Perspective3
Thoughts on a thoughtful theory of prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).3
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