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The “What” and “Why” of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
, 2000
"... Self-determination theory (SDT) maintains that an understanding of human motiva-tion requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, auton-omy, and relatedness. We discuss the SDT concept of needs as it relates to previous need theories, emphasizing that needs specify the nece ..."
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Self-determination theory (SDT) maintains that an understanding of human motiva-tion requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, auton-omy, and relatedness. We discuss the SDT concept of needs as it relates to previous need theories, emphasizing that needs specify
Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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' effects are hypothesized to be mediated by students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. Some evidence for this proposi-MOTIVATIONAL MODEL OF HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT 1163 tion exists. For instance, research has shown that the impact of feedback from a supervisor Dropping Out of High School as a
Human nature and environmentally responsive behavior
- Journal of Social Issues
, 2000
"... This article constitutes a search for a people-oriented approach to encouraging environmentally responsible behavior. It attempts to provide a source of motiva-tions, reduce the corrosive sense of helplessness, and generate solutions to envi-ronmental problems that do not undermine the quality of li ..."
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This article constitutes a search for a people-oriented approach to encouraging environmentally responsible behavior. It attempts to provide a source of motiva-tions, reduce the corrosive sense of helplessness, and generate solutions to envi-ronmental problems that do not undermine the quality
A new look at psychological climate and its relationship to job involvement, effort, and performance
- Journal of Applied Psychology
, 1996
"... This study investigated the process by which employee perceptions of the organizational environment are related to job involvement, effort, and performance. The researchers developed an operational definition of psychological climate that was based on how em-ployees perceive aspects of the organizat ..."
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of the organizational environment and interpret them in relation to their own well-being. Perceived psychological climate was then related to job involve-ment, effort, and performance in a path-analytic framework. Results showed that percep-tions of a motivating and involving psychological climate were related to job
The Opponent-Process Theory of Acquired Motivation: the Costs of Pleasure and the Benefits of Pain
- American Psychologist 35.No.8
, 1980
"... ABSTRACT: When an unconditioned stimulus, a reinforcer, or an innate releaser is repeatedly presented to human or animal subjects, three major affective phenomena are often observed. First, one often sees affective or hedonic contrast. Second, frequent repeti-tion of the unconditioned stimulus, rein ..."
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ABSTRACT: When an unconditioned stimulus, a reinforcer, or an innate releaser is repeatedly presented to human or animal subjects, three major affective phenomena are often observed. First, one often sees affective or hedonic contrast. Second, frequent repeti-tion of the unconditioned stimulus
Objects in action: an approach for combining action understanding and object perception
- in IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (Minneapolis, MN
, 2007
"... Analysis of videos of human-object interactions involves understanding human movements, locating and recogniz-ing objects and observing the effects of human movements on those objects. While each of these can be conducted independently, recognition improves when interactions be-tween these elements ..."
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are considered. Motivated by psycho-logical studies of human perception, we present a Bayesian approach which unifies the inference processes involved in object classification and localization, action understanding and perception of object reaction. Traditional approaches for object classification and ac-tion
Earth system models of intermediate complexity: closing the gap
- in Clim. Past, 5, 707–711, 2009 www.clim-past.net/5/707/2009/ M. Crucifix
"... Investigating the dynamic behavior of the Earth system remains a “grand challenge ” for the sci-entific community. It is motivated by our limited knowledge about the consequences of large-scale perturbations of the Earth system by human activities, such as fossil-fuel combus-tion or the fragmentatio ..."
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Investigating the dynamic behavior of the Earth system remains a “grand challenge ” for the sci-entific community. It is motivated by our limited knowledge about the consequences of large-scale perturbations of the Earth system by human activities, such as fossil-fuel combus-tion
Prediction of human protein function according to Gene Ontology categories
- Bioinformatics
, 2003
"... Motivation: The human genome project has led to the discovery of many human protein coding genes which were previously unknown. As a large fraction of these are functionally uncharacterized, it is of interest to develop methods for predicting their molecular function from sequence. Results: We have ..."
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Motivation: The human genome project has led to the discovery of many human protein coding genes which were previously unknown. As a large fraction of these are functionally uncharacterized, it is of interest to develop methods for predicting their molecular function from sequence. Results: We have
Dissociating motivation from reward in human striatal activity
, 2013
"... ■ Neural activity in the striatum has consistently been shown to scale with the value of anticipated rewards. As a result, it is common across a number of neuroscientific subdiscliplines to associate activation in the striatum with anticipation of a rewarding outcome or a positive emotional state. H ..."
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-related activation from that induced by motivation alone by employing a task in which motivation increased as anticipated reward decreased. This design reverses the typical relationship between motiva-tion and reward, allowing us to differentially investigate fMRI BOLD responses that scale with each. We report
A step toward irrationality: Using emotion to change belief
- In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
, 2002
"... Emotions have a powerful impact on behavior and beliefs. The goal of our research is to create general computational models of this interplay of emotion, cognition and behavior to inform the design of virtual humans. Here, we address an aspect of emotional behavior that has been studied extensively ..."
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in the psychological literature but largely ignored by computational approaches, emo-tion-focused coping. Rather than motivating external action, emo-tion-focused coping strategies alter beliefs in response to strong emotions. For example an individual may alter beliefs about the importance of a goal that is being
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