March 10, 2017 by Shannon
By SDT faculty, Jennifer La Guardia What gets you started making a health behavior change? And what keeps you going with those changes over the long haul? This book is the most comprehensive manual to date detailing how to cultivate high-quality and lasting motivation for healthy living using the tools and strategies from Self-Determination Theory....
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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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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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November 8, 2010 by Shannon
November 8th 2010. Left alone in a room, a group of people were given a complicated seven-piece puzzle, known as a Soma cube, and told to assemble the pieces into specific designs. One group was offered a monetary reward for each correctly assembled puzzle; another group was offered nothing. They worked at the puzzles...
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January 12, 2010 by Shannon
January 12th 2010. “From construction laborers and secretaries to physicians and lawyers, people experience better moods, greater vitality, and fewer aches and pains from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, concludes the first study of daily mood variation in employed adults to be published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Social and Clinical...
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September 30, 2009 by Shannon
September 30th 2009. Paying attention to the natural world not only makes you feel better, it makes you behave better, finds a new study to be published October 1 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. “Stopping to experience our natural surroundings can have social as well as personal benefits,” says Richard Ryan, coauthor and...
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September 1, 2009 by Shannon
2009. “SDT, Physical Activity, and Well-Being” headlines the latest Hellenic Journal of Psychology Find out more about the Hellenic Journal of Psychology at: http://www.pseve.org/journalinfo/journalv6b.asp
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August 1, 2009 by Shannon
August 1st 2009. SDT articles featured in Canadian Psychology’s August 2008 special issue. Follow the link for more information on featured articles: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/cap/49/3/
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July 1, 2009 by Shannon
July 2009. Gagné and Deci’s 2005 article, “Self-determination theory and work motivation,” appeared in the Journal of Organizational Behavior’s 30th anniversary edition as one of the 8 most influential articles published in JOB since its founding in 1980 Read more at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.v30:5/issuetoc
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