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 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
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
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
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
Punishment-modulated attentional capture is context specific.14
When countermessaging backfires: The role of obsessive passion in psychological reactance.13
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
The roles of need satisfaction and passion in symptoms of behavioral addiction: The case of video gaming and gambling.12
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
A longitudinal analysis of the relationships between students’ internalized symptoms and 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
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
Supporting one’s own autonomy may be more important than feeling supported by others.6
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
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
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
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