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Materias / palabras clave: Social Work; Trabajo social; Motivation (Psychology); Motivación (Psicología)

Materias / palabras clave: Emotions; Social aspects; Motivation (Psychology); Emociones; Aspectos sociales; Motivación (Psicología)

Materias / palabras clave: Psychology; Personality; Social psychology

Materias / palabras clave: Test (biology); Work (physics); Psychology; Job design; Job characteristic theory; Job performance; Job analysis; Job enrichment; Work behavior; Applied psychology; Social psychology; Computer science

Human beings can be proactive and engaged or, alternatively, passive and alienated, largely as a function of the social conditions in which they develop and function. Accordingly, research guided by self-determination th...

Past work has documented and described major patterns of adaptive and maladaptive behavior: the mastery-oriented and the helpless patterns. In this article, we present a research-based model that accounts for these patte...

Materias / palabras clave: Psychology; Intrinsic motivation; Social psychology; Self-determination theory; Political science; Law; Autonomy

Materias / palabras clave: Set (abstract data type); Intrinsic motivation; Psychology; Self-determination theory; Cognitive science; Cognitive psychology; Neuroscience; Social psychology; Computer science; Political science; Autonomy; Law

I. Introduction 1. Self-Determination Theory: An Introduction and Overview II. Philosophical and Historical Considerations 2. Organismic Principles: Historical Perspectives on Development and Integration in Living Entiti...

This chapter presents an outline of a theory of intergroup conflict and some preliminary data relating to the theory. Much of the work on the social psychology of intergroup relations has focused on patterns of individua...

A hypothesized need to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships is evaluated in light of the empirical literature. The need is for frequent, nonaversive interactions within an ongoing relational bond....

People in different cultures have strikingly different construals of the self, of others, and of the interdependence of the 2. These construals can influence, and in many cases determine, the very nature of individual ex...

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem ...

Abstract Self-determination theory (SDT) maintains that an understanding of human motivation requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. We discuss the SDT concept of...

The concept of school engagement has attracted increasing attention as representing a possible antidote to declining academic motivation and achievement. Engagement is presumed to be malleable, responsive to contextual f...

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) so...

How should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of individuals. We develop in this article the argu...