... the relative effect of approach versus avoidance motivation on willingness to plan (total N =1349). With outcome framing as the experimental manipulation, participants were randomly assigned to either an approach or an avoidance condition, and then indicated their willingness to plan their study activities...

...Johanna Peetz; Marina Milyavskaya; Mariya Davydenko; M. Brent Donnellan; M. Brent Donnellan When working towards goals, the length and frequency of goal pursuit sessions might play a role in individuals’ goal pursuit motivation. We examined whether a more divided (frequent, shorter sessions...

... the reward cue and outcome; so was still embedded within the reward task ( Mather & Schoeke, 2011 ). Arguably, these designs mean that the even under incidental learning the rewards are motivationally linked to the memory stimuli, suggesting that we need to be aware of the motivational influences more...

... with prevalence, we wanted to learn about the characteristics of frozen goals, such as commitment, motivation, effort, importance, and difficulty. Upon agreeing to participate, participants were presented with a description of what constitutes a frozen goal: 19 09 2018 31 03 2019...

...Christopher R. Madan; Rolf Zwaan; Christopher Madan A growing body of literature has demonstrated that motivation influences cognitive processing. The breadth of these effects is extensive and span influences of reward, emotion, and other motivational processes across all cognitive domains...

... that the motivation to participate in a study (cash versus course credit) can relate to performance on a behavioral task of rewarded memory. In Experiment 1, undergraduate participants were recruited and compensated for their time with either partial course credit or cash. Potential performance-based cash rewards...