July 22, 2015 by Shannon
July 22nd 2015. Gregory Chertok, a sport psychology counselor and fitness trainer at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center in Englewood, New Jersey cites self-determination theory when touting the social benefits of laughter yoga. “Chertok noted that writer and researcher Norman Cousins, whose book “Anatomy of an Illness” influenced Kataria, famously referred to laughter as...
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June 8, 2015 by Shannon
June 8th 2015. Please help us out by completing this brief survey about your interest in the conference. Connect with us on our Facebook event page. We’d love to see photos of your favorite moments from the 2013 conference!
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June 2, 2015 by Shannon
Applying Self-Determination Theory to Health-Behavior Interventions June 2, 2015 9:00am to 5:00pm Edinburgh, Scotland International Conference Centre Self-Determination Theory is one of the leading psychological theories on motivation & a powerful cornerstone to building a successful health initiative, program or intervention. In this...
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May 31, 2015 by Shannon
June 8th 2015. David Sze, Research Editor at the Huffington Post has featured self-determination theory in his latest article on the science of well-being. Sze writes, “As far as psychology theories go, University of Rochester’s Richard Ryan and Edward Deci’s Self-Determination Theory is one of the biggest out there. The theory has been used to analysis situations as...
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May 14, 2015 by Shannon
May 13th 2015. The New York Times cites self-determination theory in their article, Lawyers with Lowest Pay Report More Happiness.
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April 25, 2015 by Shannon
April 25th 2015. In an op-ed for The New York Times, columnist David Brooks references the work of SDT scholars Avi Assor, Guy Roth and Ed Deci in a post regarding child-rearing. “Studies by Avi Assor, Guy Roth and Edward L. Deci suggest that children who receive conditional love often do better in the short run....
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April 15, 2015 by Shannon
Handbook of Mindfulness Theory, Research, and Practice Edited by Kirk Warren Brown, J. David Creswell, and Richard M. Ryan “Finally, the most comprehensive work on mindfulness! This handbook sums up the current state of the research and clinical applications and offers insightful discussions of multiple aspects of mindfulness. The chapters are written in a clear...
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March 28, 2015 by Shannon
March 28th 2015. As we launch the foundation for SDT, we could use your input on future initiatives. Please take a minute to fill out our brief 6-question survey. http://sgiz.mobi/s3/70dfd871bd97
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March 1, 2015 by Shannon
March 5th 2015. Website, Business 2 Community offers twenty 20 non-monetary ways to reward and motivate employees in modern workplaces. The blog utilizes a 1999 study by Self-Determination Theory scholars, Ed Deci, Richard Koestner, and Rich Ryan, which looks at extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivators. “Deci’s experiment showed that money actually decreased intrinsic motivation because...
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