News tagged with motivation
Dopamine regulates the motivation to act
The widespread belief that dopamine regulates pleasure could go down in history with the latest research results on the role of this neurotransmitter. Researchers have proved that it regulates motivation, causing individuals ...
Neuroscience
Apr 29, 2013 |
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Paedophiles identified accurately with implicit association tasks
A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished – with more than 90 per cent certainty – a group of paedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for adult ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 25, 2013 |
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UCSB researcher studies hormone levels and sexual motivation among young women
Feeling frisky? If so, chances are greater your estrogen level –– and, perhaps, fertility –– are hitting their monthly peak. If not, you're more likely experiencing a profusion of desire-deadening progesterone, and ...
Medical research
Apr 25, 2013 |
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The motivation to move: Study finds rats calculate 'average' of reward across several tests
Suppose you had $1,000 to invest in the stock market. How would you decide to pick one stock over another? Scientists have made great progress in understanding the neuroscience behind how people choose between ...
Neuroscience
Apr 19, 2013 |
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The hunt for the creative individual
Some people are more creative than others and are literally bubbling with ideas, while others rarely or never show signs of creativity. What should we look for when searching for creative people?
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Smart app gives tips for an active lifestyle
Getting enough exercise is a big challenge for a lot of people. The solution: an app that provides personal activity tips at the right times. That concludes Yuzhong Lin in her doctoral research at Eindhoven ...
Health
Mar 29, 2013 |
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Comparing to others may improve motivation for self-care
Comparing yourself to others who are either worse off or are not coping well may increase your motivation to take better care of yourself when facing an illness or disease, according to researchers at Penn State and Drexel ...
Health
Mar 21, 2013 |
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'Prevent death' message more effective than 'save life' in blood donation campaigns
Subtle changes in messaging can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of charitable messages such as calls for blood donations, according to research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Eileen Chou f ...
Other
Mar 06, 2013 |
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Men, women evaluate losses differently in mating contexts, researcher says
(Medical Xpress)—Much research in psychology and economics has shown that people are "loss averse," meaning they tend to weigh losses more strongly than equivalent gains. For example, people are more motivated by a loss ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 01, 2013 |
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Behavioral therapy for children with autism can impact brain function
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers including a UC Santa Barbara graduate student discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Feb 14, 2013 |
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Negative stereotypes about boys hinder their academic achievement
Negative stereotypes about boys may hinder their achievement, while assuring them that girls and boys are equally academic may help them achieve. From a very young age, children think boys are academically inferior to girls, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2013 |
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Desire for a tan is making teenage girls ignore sunbed dangers
Teenage girls desperate for a tan are determined to find ways of getting round the law banning under-18s from using sunbeds, according to a new study from Cancer Research UK published in the Journal of Pu ...
Health
Feb 01, 2013 |
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Acts of kindness can make you happier
(HealthDay)—Performing small acts of kindness and gratitude can make people happier, researchers believe, but how this occurs is more of a puzzle.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 24, 2013 |
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In the land of the free, interdependence undermines Americans' motivation to act
Public campaigns that call upon people to think and act interdependently may undermine motivation for many Americans, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Scienc ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 22, 2013 |
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Study examines why motivation comes and goes
Whether you have a business goal of increasing market share, hope to lose 20 pounds, or have vowed to read Moby Dick, you may have noticed that somewhere around midway to your goal, motivation wanes. According to new research ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Motivation
Motivation is the internal condition that activates behavior and gives it direction; energizes and directs goal-oriented behavior. The term is generally used for human motivation but, theoretically, it can be used to describe the causes for animal behavior as well. This article refers to human motivation. According to various theories, motivation may be rooted in the basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure, or it may include specific needs such as eating and resting, or a desired object, hobby, goal, state of being, ideal, or it may be attributed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism, morality, or avoiding mortality.
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