YouTube: “The High Price of Materialism”
December 11, 2011 by Shannon
December 4th 2011. Uploaded by The Center for a New American Dream
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The New Republic: No Bribe Left Behind: Putting Newt’s Zaniest Education Policy to the Test
November 28, 2011 by Shannon
November 28th 2011. Another objection rests on the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Edward Deci, a psychologist at the University of Rochester, says that extrinsic cash incentives create temporary motives. “You do the work, you get paid. … Then the money stops. Do you still keep going to work?” In 1999, Deci analyzed...
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New York Times: Motivating Students With Cash-For-Grades Incentive
November 20, 2011 by Shannon
November 20th 2011. However widely held, do such views represent anything more than entrenched prejudice? Edward Deci maintains they do. “What we think of as the amount of motivation is not nearly as important as the type of motivation,” said Mr. Deci, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester and the author of...
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ABC News: Gray and Gay: Closeted Psychiatrist Comes Out After 40 Years
July 8, 2011 by Shannon
July 8th 2011. “The average age at which gay men come out has fallen steadily in four decades, according to a 2010 survey by the British LGBT group Stonewall. In the 60-plus group of those who had already come out, the average age was 37. For men and women in their 30s, the average age was...
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VIDEO: In an interview with ABC News Richard Ryan discusses coming out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and how the environment influences the coming out process
June 30, 2011 by Shannon
June 30th 2011. In an interview with ABC News, Richard Ryan discusses coming out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and how the environment influences the coming out process. This research was conducted by Nicole Legate, Richard Ryan and Netta Weinstein. Originally posted at: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/coming-accepting-environment-affects-happines-13967285
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YouTube: ABC News Interview with Richard Ryan
June 30, 2011 by Shannon
June 30th 2011. In an interview with ABC News, Richard Ryan discusses coming out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and how the environment influences the coming out process. This research was conducted by Nicole Legate, Richard Ryan and Netta Weinstein. ABC World News
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HUFFINGTON POST: Two Studies on Gays Coming Out…or Not
June 22, 2011 by Shannon
June 22nd 2011. “When people did come out in a certain aspect of their lives, the benefits were tempered by how accepting that community was, said study researcher Richard Ryan, a psychologist at the University of Rochester in New York. “We didn’t find any overall negative effect of coming out in controlling environments,” Ryan told...
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informIT: Choosing to Perform Well
May 22, 2011 by Shannon
May 23rd 2011. “Recently, motivational psychologists have come up with various models to answer these questions. Many researchers maintain that one of our basic needs is autonomy. If we feel we’ve freely chosen to do something, we are happy to do it, and we perform better. Experiments by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan of the University of...
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CBS MoneyWatch: Kids and Money: 5 Ways to Instill Good Habits
May 12, 2011 by Shannon
May 12th 2011. Try it. You’ll like it. It’s a lie that parents tell their kids all the time, and it’s usually about food. But now there is evidence that even if kids don’t like, say, an icky vegetable, if you can get them to keep sampling the food eventually they will grow to enjoy...
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