Motivation is less fragile than people think. More often, what causes it to fail is the result of years of gradual erosion ...

Last week, my not-so-little brother celebrated his thirtieth birthday, and he proudly showed the gift he got from his girlfriend that morning — a shiny new guitar. Despite his reputation for ...

Instructional behavior plays a key role in learning motivation. In many developing countries, students’ learning motivation needs to be restored, primarily through effective teaching. This research ...

“I was stuck, and it sucked. I felt unheard and used. I was a cog in the wheel of the big engineering firm and didn’t feel I had an opportunity to grow. It was a defeating feeling, and I wanted more ...

At what stage should people be given the power to overrule AI in the workplace? New research suggests sooner is better. Giving employees the power to overrule AI decisions from day one boosts ...

Self-determination theory (SDT) is an empirically based theory of motivation and psychological development that is especially focused on the basic psychological needs that promote high quality ...

Self-determination theory (SDT) is one of the most well established and powerful approaches to well-being in psychological research literature. Yet it doesn't seem to have broken through into popular ...

When I was around 10 years old, my stay-at-home dad went back to work. For the next few years, he switched jobs a lot. For a while he took portraits in a photography studio; another time, he managed a ...

Motivation is hard to come by. There’s always another task, another project, another objective–and any motivation you manage to scrape together for one thing is absent for the next. But motivation isn ...