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A motivational approach to self: integration in personality.

Edward L. Deci, +1 more
- Vol. 38, pp 237-288
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The article was published on 1990-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2906 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personality development & Personality.

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Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

TL;DR: Research guided by self-determination theory has focused on the social-contextual conditions that facilitate versus forestall the natural processes of self-motivation and healthy psychological development, leading to the postulate of three innate psychological needs--competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

TL;DR: Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as mentioned in this paper maintains that an understanding of human motivation requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, emphasizing that needs specify the necessary conditions for psychological growth, integrity, and well-being.
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On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being

TL;DR: This review considers research from both perspectives concerning the nature of well-being, its antecedents, and its stability across time and culture.
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A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of 128 studies examined the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation and found that engagement-contingent, completion-contengent, and performance-contagioning rewards significantly undermined free-choice intrinsic motivation, as did all rewards, all tangible rewards and all expected rewards.

Psychological Bulletin A Meta-Analytic Review of Experiments Examining the Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 128 studies examined the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation, finding that Tangible rewards tended to be more detrimental for children than college students, and verbal rewards tend to be less enhancing for children compared with college students.
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