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.
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March 16, 2021 by Lemos Kelly
July 21 2019 // by Michelle Sara In this NeuroClastic article, Michelle Sara writes about correlations between the findings of motivation research and behavioural therapy.
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October 18, 2012 by Shannon
October 18th 2012. :Whether you pursue an activity for its own sake or because external forces compel you, psychologists Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan of the University of Rochester argue that you gain motivation when you feel in charge. In evaluations of students, athletes and employees, the researchers have found that the...
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Self-Determined: What motivates you? Two Rochester experimental psychologists are challenging some cherished assumptions (Aug. 2010).
November 10, 2010 by Shannon
November 15th 2010. If humans were cars, we would have been recalled a long time ago for a key fix in the ignition equipment. A serious defect keeps our desire machinery defaulting to a belief that other people, goodies, or status can make us happy or worthy — the exact opposite of what can do...
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August 1, 2010 by Shannon
August 2010. Ten years ago, the popular business reporter and author Daniel Pink began researching why an increasing number of people were leaving jobs in large organizations to work for themselves. He encountered—“in a pretty cursory way,” as he explains it—work on human motivation by Rochester experimental psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. Two...
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July 22, 2008 by Shannon
July 22nd 2008. Scientists say this need for community may be a result of humanity’s long evolution in groups. Living together conferred an advantage, they say. In the hunter-gatherer world, relatedness, autonomy, curiosity, and competence – the very things that psychologists find make people happy – “had payoffs that were pretty clear,” says Richard Ryan, a...
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