In faculty conversations about teaching, student motivation comes up constantly: “This student is motivated,” “I hope they’re learning for the right reasons,” or “I want my students to be ...

The social behaviors of humans and animals often unfold over two distinct phases, namely a motivational and an action phase. The first of these phases entails instinctual and reward-seeking mental ...

Internal motivation doesn’t have to be manufactured. It surfaces when approval is no longer the entry fee for action.

Traditional employee motivation strategies, like financial incentives, often yield only short-term results, failing to build lasting commitment. Leaders must instead cultivate self-driven extrinsic ...

Survey data shows that most people believe climate change is happening, but many don't act, and as a postdoctoral fellow in Annenberg School for Communication Professor Emily Falk's Communication ...

Mentally, I wanted to get started. But emotionally, I just wasn’t ready. Until one day, I was. Over time, I’ve learned to use a counterintuitive three-word phrase to help me bridge that gap, to keep ...

Or the psychology of why we are driven to do what we do Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Some psychologists feel that we are motivated to do things because of our internal desires and wishes (e.g., going ...

If you have a kid who "just doesn't care," you may be at a loss when all of the conventional homework motivation tips—stickers, promises of a trip to a toy store, threats of punishment—fall short.

A collaborative study from researchers affiliated with the Annenberg School for Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and School of Arts & Sciences tested 17 strategies in an ‘intervention ...