A major concern in psychology and education is that rewards decrease intrinsic motivation to perform activities. Over the past 30 years, more than 100 experimental studies have been ...
Over the past 20 plus years, we have accumulated considerable evidence to document the health benefits of physical activity. Researchers have established with a fair degree of confidence just ...
For over 30 years now, there has been an intense debate on the effects of external rewards on intrinsic motivation. The answer to this question appears to depend on two properties of a ...
Psychologists call behavior intrinsically motivated when it is engaged in for its own sake rather than as a step toward solving a specific problem of clear practical value. But what we ...
Intrinsic motivation, centrally involved in spontaneous exploration and curiosity, is a crucial concept in developmental psychology. It has been argued to be a crucial mechanism for open-ended ...
Intrinsic motivation is a crucial mechanism for open-ended cognitive development since it is the driver of spontaneous exploration and curiosity. Yet, it has so far only been ...
There are relatively few empirical studies that examine cultural differences in students’ motivation and acceptance to use web-based learning systems. Asian and Western countries have ...
R. W. White (1959) proposed that certain motives, such as curiosity, autonomy, and play (called intrinsic motives, or IMs), have common characteristics that distinguish them from drives. ...
A goal of epigenetic robotics is to design a control architecture that implements an ongoing, autonomous developmental process which is unsupervised, unscheduled, and ...
The authors argue against a purely behavioral definition of praise as verbal reinforcement in favor of the view that praise may serve to undermine, enhance, or have no effect on ...