Motivation Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Motivation Science is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
A classification of motivation and behavior change techniques used in self-determination theory-based interventions in health contexts.187
Building a science of motivated persons: Self-determination theory’s empirical approach to human experience and the regulation of behavior.105
The role of utility value in promoting interest development.22
A brief social belonging intervention improves academic outcomes for minoritized high school students.20
Adherence to COVID-19 measures: The critical role of autonomous motivation on a short- and long-term basis.19
On the mechanics of goal striving: Experimental evidence of coasting and shifting.17
Well-being as a resource for goal reengagement: Evidence from two longitudinal studies.16
The value of valuing math: Longitudinal links between students’ intrinsic, attainment, and utility values and grades in math.15
Inhibitory control elicited by physical activity and inactivity stimuli: An electroencephalography study.15
Just do it: Engaging in self-control on a daily basis improves the capacity for self-control.14
The influence of perceptions of intentionality and controllability on perceived responsibility: Applying attribution theory to people’s responses to social transgression in the COVID-19 pandemic.14
From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon.13
Bibliometric review of attribution theory: Document cocitation analysis.12
The roles of need satisfaction and passion in symptoms of behavioral addiction: The case of video gaming and gambling.11
Appetitive motivation in depressive anhedonia: Effects of piece-rate cash rewards on cardiac and behavioral outcomes.11
The relation of parental support of emerging adults’ goals to well-being over time: The mediating roles of goal progress and autonomy need satisfaction.11
The dynamics of doubt: Short-term fluctuations and predictors of doubts in personal goal pursuit.11
Motivation in the wild: A critical review of the relationship between motives and motor performance.11
Punishment-modulated attentional capture is context specific.11
Performance trajectories for competitive swimmers: The role of coach interpersonal behaviors and athlete motivation.11
Effort in daily life: Relationships between experimental tasks and daily experience.11
Momentary emotion profiles in high school science and their relations to control, value, achievement, and science career intentions.11
When countermessaging backfires: The role of obsessive passion in psychological reactance.10
The approach-motivational nature of reactance—Evidence from asymmetrical frontal cortical activation.10
Dimensional comparisons in the formation of domain-specific achievement goals.10
Prosocial motivation: A Lewinian approach.9
A longitudinal analysis of the relationships between students’ internalized symptoms and achievement goals.9
Embodiment of approach-avoidance behavior: Motivational priming of whole-body movements in a virtual world.9
Choosing task characteristics oneself justifies effort: A study on cardiac response and the critical role of task difficulty.9
Effects of habit and intention on behavior: Meta-analysis and test of key moderators.9
Task choice immunizes against incidental affective influences in volition.9
Intrinsic motivation and flow.8
A self-determination theory perspective on RIASEC occupational themes: Motivation types as predictors of self-efficacy and college program domain.8
Implicit theories of interest regulation.8
Emotion as a process: Appraisal, emotion, and coping patterns across time.8
Collaborative autonomy: The dynamic relations between personal goal autonomy and perceived autonomy support in emerging adulthood results in positive affect and goal progress.8
On trading off labor and leisure: A process model of perceived autonomy and opportunity costs.7
Expectancy-value theory to situated expectancy-value theory: Reflections on the legacy of 40+ years of working together.7
COVID-19 illegal social gatherings: Predicting rule compliance from autonomous and controlled forms of motivation.6
Reward strengthens action–effect binding.6
Integrating and instigating research on person and situation, motivation and volition, and their development.6
A preregistered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort.6
The cerebellum in aggression: Extending the cortico-limbic dual-route model of motivation and emotion.6
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.6
Some revenge now or more revenge later? Applying an intertemporal framework to retaliatory aggression.6
Examining the role of interpersonal relationship on attribution, emotion, and depression support provision: Experimental evidence from the People’s Republic of China.6
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and self-determination theory.6
Supporting one’s own autonomy may be more important than feeling supported by others.5
Managing the motivation of others: Do managers recognize how to manage regulatory focus in subordinates?5
Control alters risk-taking: The motivating impact of action-effectiveness in different risk contexts.5
Don’t make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual.5
Regulatory focus and thinking about the future versus reality.5
A cross-cultural investigation of metamotivational knowledge of construal level in the United States and Japan.4
Unpacking motivational culture: Diverging emphasis on communality and agency across STEM domains.4
The motivation of aggression: A cognitive neuroscience approach and neurochemical speculations.4
Mental contrasting spurs energy by changing implicit evaluations of obstacles.4
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.4
In it to win it? Comparative evaluation increases zero-sum beliefs.4
A generative legacy: SDT’s refined understanding of the central role of autonomy in human lives.4
Reward-seeking deficits in major depression: Unpacking appetitive task performance with ex-Gaussian response time variability analysis.4
Going the distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The vital role of identified motivation.4
Understanding the desire to play violent video games: An integrative motivational theory.4
A legacy unfinished: An appreciative reply to comments on self-determination theory’s frontiers and challenges.4
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