Motivation Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Motivation Science is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for Role of Contingency in Reward–Emotion Interactions During the Categorization of Emotional Facial Expressions60
What is next for situated expectancy-value theory? A reply to our commentators.47
What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity.27
Batson on prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).23
Supplemental Material for Measuring Subjective Mental Effort as an Aversive and Enjoyable Phenomenon21
Supplemental Material for Missing Out by Pursuing Rewarding Outcomes: Why Initial Biases Can Lead to Persistent Suboptimal Choices21
Dyadic motive fit: How individual differences in dyads’ motives predict performance and communication in joint action.19
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.18
Goal motives, mental contrasting with implementation intentions, and the self-regulation of saving goals: A longitudinal investigation.18
Which insights can research on achievement motivation gain from network analysis? Comparing different network methods empirically.17
Ramadan fasting as a goal-pursuit: Why people fast, and how motives affect their experience.16
Supplemental Material for Pushing Reactance Theory: An Examination of the Reactance Process in the Context of Advice16
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.13
Does exposure to sedentary temptations activate physical activity goals? A high-powered replication study.13
Supplemental Material for Dyadic Motive Fit: How Individual Differences in Dyads’ Motives Predict Performance and Communication in Joint Action13
Supplemental Material for Episodic Binding of Approach–Avoidance Goals to Stimuli: On the Microgenesis of Stimulus-Motivated Action Tendencies to Approach and Avoid12
Supplemental Material for Motive-Modulated Attentional Orienting: Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attentional Avoidance of Signals of Interpersonal Dominance12
Supplemental Material for Leave to Fight Another Day: Having the Option to Switch Promotes a Persistence Trade-Off11
What to say to round up more donors, or bigger donations.11
The force of craving: Approach movements relate to lateralized P3 amplitudes and sensation seeking.10
Using dynamic item response theory and machine learning based on natural language processing to improve the reliability of the Operant Motive Test.10
A mastery-oriented (and masterful) career: Some reflections on Carol Dweck’s legacy article.10
Emotional learning and psychopathic personality traits: The role of attentional focus and intention to learn.10
Self-regulatory processes in striving for identity goals: Self-incompleteness shields eco-friendly vegans from temptations.8
The homunculus in the room: A reply to Kunde and Janczyk (2024) and Hommel and Eder (2024).8
The uncertainty-dissuasion model of reactance inhibition.8
A fictional discussion between the late B. F. Skinner and Edwin A. Locke.8
Motive-modulated attentional orienting: Implicit power motive predicts attentional avoidance of signals of interpersonal dominance.7
Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes.7
It is time to stop using the terminology “passive” fatigue.7
Episodic binding of approach–avoidance goals to stimuli: On the microgenesis of stimulus-motivated action tendencies to approach and avoid.7
Congratulations, so happy for you! Promotion motivation predicts social support for positive events.7
The legacies of the neuropsychology of anxiety for Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory.7
Empowering change: A self-control perspective on how choice architecture interventions can promote sustainable behavior change.7
Emotions, action tendencies, and the reinforcement sensitivity theory.6
The roles of need satisfaction and passion in symptoms of behavioral addiction: The case of video gaming and gambling.6
Supplemental Material for Metacognitive Awareness of Subjective Difficulty, Effort, and Frustration in Cognitive Conflict Contexts6
Supplemental Material for Poor Sleep Quality Is Significantly Associated With Effort but Not Temporal Discounting of Monetary Rewards6
Understanding the desire to play violent video games: An integrative motivational theory.6
Supplemental Material for The Two Faces of Persistence: How Harmonious and Obsessive Passion Shape Goal Pursuit6
Latent profiles of high school academic intrinsic motivation: Relations to educational attainment, curiosity, and work and leadership motivation in adulthood.6
From feeling to doing in social dilemmas: Emotional and behavioral responses to climate change.6
Supplemental Material for Mentalizing in Reactance: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Freedom Threats5
Supplemental Material for Does Exposure to Sedentary Temptations Activate Physical Activity Goals? A High-Powered Replication Study5
Why motivation for adhering to COVID-19 measures matters: Investigating time-lagged associations with epidemiological indicators.5
Environmental control of human goal pursuit: Investigating cue-based forced responses in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm.5
Where are anxiety and personality in the brain?5
Effects of habit and intention on behavior: Meta-analysis and test of key moderators.5
Supplemental Material for Goal Motives, Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions, and the Self-Regulation of Saving Goals: A Longitudinal Investigation5
COVID-19 illegal social gatherings: Predicting rule compliance from autonomous and controlled forms of motivation.5
Beyond counterarguing? Comparing multiple measures of cognitive resistance for psychological reactance using the avoidance, contesting, and empowering (ACE) resistance typology.4
Defeminizing sustainability: How to boost men’s motivation for proenvironmental behavior.4
Rebels for a reason: How psychological reactance is goal-directed.4
Supplemental Material for The Differential Effects of Reward Prospect and Reward Reception: Dynamic Performance Adjustment Versus Stable Performance4
Cognitive mastery motivation antecedents of academic intrinsic motivation latent profiles: A longitudinal study from preschool to adolescence.4
School context and academic engagement: A longitudinal study on the mediating effect of the motivational self system.4
Implications of psychological reactance for clinical practice in psychiatry including a systematic review.4
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of longitudinal work passion profiles.4
Student attributions about interest-value shape academic decisions and recommendations.3
Supplemental Material for Motives and Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Predict Progress and Management of Goals in Parents3
Role of contingency in reward–emotion interactions during the categorization of emotional facial expressions.3
The cerebellum in aggression: Extending the cortico-limbic dual-route model of motivation and emotion.3
The utility value of a broad, comprehensive theory of motivation.3
Expectancy, value, . . . And more.3
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