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Canadian Family Physician (CFP): On hidden psychological costs of virtual healthcare, A call to action

April 26, 2022 by Lemos Kelly

June 28, 2021 / Adam Neufeld, MD MSc In this article from the Canadian Family Physician (CFP), SDT International Scholar, Adam Neufeld, writes about the psychological impacts of virtual healthcare due to the global pandemic. Meeting medical needs is a hot topic in virtual care. Equally important but less discussed, however, are basic psychological needs....

Psychology Today: Time for a Psychologically Smart Technology

March 13, 2022 by Lemos Kelly

March 11, 2022 / By Kostadin Kushlev, Ph.D. In this news article from Psychology Today, read about using basic psychological needs to design smart technology that helps improve our lives.

The Campus: Boosting student motivation through course design

November 30, 2021 by Lemos Kelly

June 3, 2021 / By Maurice Kinsella, Niamh Nestor, John Wyatt In this article from The Campus, Part of the Times Higher Education, Maurice Kinsella and Niamh Nestor explain how to use self-determination theory as a guide to boost student motivation through careful online course design.

Harvard Business Review: What Maslow’s Hierarchy Won’t Tell You About Motivation

November 1, 2021 by Lemos Kelly

November 26, 2014 / by Susan Fowler In this Harvard Business Review article, Susan Fowler describes how we can take advantage of SDT as a new, contemporary science to understand motivation.

Forbes: Leaders Who Coach Improve Employee Well-Being And Build Strong Relationships

June 11, 2021 by Lemos Kelly

June 8, 2021 // by Tony Gambill SDT is highlighted in this Forbes article describing how leading through coaching is an important tool for building strong employee relationships and improving employee well-being.

Times Colonist: B.C. taking correct approach to COVID-19, UVic psychology professor says

June 2, 2021 by Lemos Kelly

May 19, 2020 // By Roxanne Egan-Elliott Interesting thoughts on motivation for social distancing in this article citing SDT researcher Fred Grouzet

Sveriges Radio: Is Sweden’s coronavirus strategy more psychologically sustainable?

June 2, 2021 by Lemos Kelly

April 17, 2020 // Lee Roden Radio Sweden spoke to Karin Weman Josefsso, an SDT scholar at Halmstad University

“A key lesson of SDT is that human beings could be happier while inflicting less environmental damage if our choices were focused more on our finite psychological needs and less on our boundless material wants”

April 30, 2021 by Lemos Kelly

-Randall Curren SDT Environment Editor, Professor & Chair, Philosophy Dept, University of Rochester

Achieve Magazine: The New ABCs of Teaching: How to Increase High-Quality Student Motivation