Motivation

Motivating exercise through social media: Is a picture always worth a thousand words?
Objectives In the present study, we examined how the influence of exercise-related social media content on exercise motivation might …
Caitlyn Johnston, William E. Davis
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Approaching the true self: Promotion focus predicts the experience of authenticity
Research on subjective authenticity identifies several psychological antecedents that seem naturally tied to subjectively authentic …
Jinhyung Kim, Kaiyuan Chen, William E. Davis, Joshua A. Hicks, Rebecca J. Schlegel
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Motivating the academic mind: High-level construal of academic goals enhances goal meaningfulness, motivation, and self-concordance
How one thinks about or conceptualizes a goal has important consequences for the motivational features of goal pursuit. Two experiments …
William E. Davis, Nicholas J. Kelley, Jinhyung Kim, David Tang, Joshua A. Hicks
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