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Wired.co.uk: How to Make Your Staff More Creative

February 10, 2012 by Shannon

February 10th 2012. According to research by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan of the University of Rochester, New York, unreasonable time constraints, micromanagement, focused thinking and overreliance on financial incentives all reduce workplace creativity. So what can you do to foster an inventive environment? Read more at: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-to/make-your-staff-more-creative By Andrea Kuszewski

New York Times: Guest Post | Helping Students Motivate Themselves

January 9, 2012 by Shannon

January 9th 2012. A recent Times article, “Motivating Students With Cash-for-Grades Incentive,” looks at efforts around the world to pay students for academic achievement. In it, Edward Deci, a psychologist at the University of Rochester and author of of “Why We Do What We Do,” is quoted: “It is easy to get people to do things by...

YouTube: “The High Price of Materialism”

December 11, 2011 by Shannon

December 4th 2011. Uploaded by The Center for a New American Dream

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...

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...

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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Wired.co.uk: How to Make Your Staff More Creative

New York Times: Guest Post | Helping Students Motivate Themselves

YouTube: “The High Price of Materialism”

The New Republic: No Bribe Left Behind: Putting Newt’s Zaniest Education Policy to the Test

New York Times: Motivating Students With Cash-For-Grades Incentive

ABC News: Gray and Gay: Closeted Psychiatrist Comes Out After 40 Years

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

YouTube: ABC News Interview with Richard Ryan

HUFFINGTON POST: Two Studies on Gays Coming Out…or Not

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