Communication / Voice / Tone

The Theory

Basic SDT research topics

Vrijders, B., Weinstein, N.Paulmann, S., Soenens, B. (2024) Your prosody matters! The effect of controlling tone of voice on listeners throughout the lifespan. Proc. Speech Prosody, Advance online publication ,456-461

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Weinstein, N., Legate, N.Graham, L.Zheng, Y. (2023) The role of perceived autonomy-supportive communication for motivating prejudice reduction and avoiding defiant backlash within the police force workplace. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(5) ,443-454

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Paulmann, S., Weinstein, N. (2023) Teachers’ motivational prosody: A pre-registered experimental test of children’s reactions to tone of voice used by teachers. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(2) ,437-452

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Morbée, S., Vansteenkiste, M.Waterschoot, J.Klein, O. (2023) The role of communication style and external motivators in predicting vaccination experiences and intentions: An experimental vignette study. Health Communication, 38(13) ,2894-2903

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Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q. (2022) In In J. Mynard & S. Shelton-Strong (Eds.), The quality of our connections matters: Relationships Motivation Theory in independent language learning. Multilingual Matters Autonomy-support beyond the language learning classroom, ,149-163

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Legate, N., Weinstein, N. (2022) Can we communicate autonomy support and a mandate? How motivating messages relate to motivation for staying at home across time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Communication, 37(14) ,1842-1849

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Martela, F.Hankonen, N., Ryan, R. M., Vansteenkiste, M. (2021) Motivating voluntary compliance to behavioural restrictions: Self-determination theory-based checklist of principles for COVID-19 and other emergency communications. , European Review of Social Psychology , 32(2) (pp. 305-347) doi: 10.1080/10463283.2020.1857082

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Porat, T.Nyrup, R., Calvo, R. A.Paudyal, P. (2020) Public health and risk communication during COVID-19 – enhancing psychological needs to promote sustainable behaviour change. , Frontiers in Public Health , 8 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.573397

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Murray, A.Hall, A., Williams, G. C.McDonough, S. M. (2019) Assessing physiotherapists’ communication skills for promoting patient autonomy for self-management: reliability and validity of the communication evaluation in rehabilitation tool. Disability and Rehabilitation, 41(14) ,1699-1705

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J.Audenaert, E.Van Petegem, S.Vandevelde, S. (2019) The internalization of and defiance against rules within prison: The role of correctional officers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling communication style as perceived by prisoners. Motivation and Emotion, 43 ,771-785

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Hancox, J. E., Thogersen-Ntoumani, C.Quested, E., Ntoumanis, N. (2018) The effects of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style. Internatonal Journal of Sport Psychology, 49(1) ,17-34

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Ntoumanis, N.Quested, E., Reeve, J.Cheon, S. H. (2018) In B. Jackson, J. A. Dimmock, & J. Compton, Need supportive communication: Implications for motivation in sport, exercise, and physical activity. , Persuasion and communication in sport, exercise, and physical activity (pp. 155-169) Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Mabbe, E., Soenens, B.De Muynck, G-J., Vansteenkiste, M. (2018) The impact of feedback valence and communication style on intrinsic motivation in middle childhood: Experimental evidence and generalization across individual differences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 170 ,134-160

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Zougkou, K., Weinstein, N.Paulmann, S. (2017) ERP correlates of motivating voices: Quality of motivation and time-course matters. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(10) ,1687-1700

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Van Petegem, S., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B.Zimmermann, G. (2017) When do adolescents accept or defy to maternal prohibitions? The role of social domain and communication style. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(5) ,1022-1037

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Lonsdale, C.Hall, A. M.Murray, A., Williams, G. C. (2017) Communication skills training for practitioners to increase patient adherence to home-based rehabilitation for chronic low back pain: Results of a cluster randomized controlled trial. , Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 98 (pp. 1732-1743) doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2017.02.025

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Martinez, K. A.Resnicow, K., Williams, G. C., Silva, M. N. (2016) Does physician communication style impact patient report of decision quality for breast cancer treatment?. Patient Education and Counseling, 99(12) ,1947-1954

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Bjelland, M., Soenens, B.Bere, E.Kovács, É. (2015) Associations between parental rules, style of communication and children’s screen time. BMC Public Health, 15(1002)

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Hancox, J.Quested, E., Thogersen-Ntoumani, C., Ntoumanis, N. (2015) An intervention to train group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style: a quasi-experimental study protocol. , Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine , 3 (pp. 190-203) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2015.1074075

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Murray, A.Hall, A. M., Williams, G. C.McDonough, S. M. (2015) Effect of a self-determination theory–based communication skills training program on physiotherapists’ psychological support for their patients with chronic low back pain: A randomized controlled trial. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 96(5) ,809-816

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Pelletier, L. G.Sharp, E. (2008) Persuasive communication and proenvironmental behaviours: How message tailoring and message framing can improve integration of behaviors through self-determined motivation. Canadian Psychology, 49 ,210-217

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Vansteenkiste, M.Simons, J.Lens, W., Soenens, B. (2005) Examining the motivational impact of intrinsic versus extrinsic goal framing and autonomy-supportive versus internally controlling communication style on early adolescents’ academic achievement. Child Development, 2 ,483-501

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Noels, K. A. (2001) Learning Spanish as a second language: Learners’ orientations and perceptions of their teachers’ communication style. Language Learning, 51 ,107-144

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