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Effects of Externally-Imposed Deadlines on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1976-01-01. It has received 481 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive evaluation theory & Overjustification effect.read more
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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan +1 more
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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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions.
Richard M. Ryan,Edward L. Deci +1 more
TL;DR: This review revisits the classic definitions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in light of contemporary research and theory and discusses the relations of both classes of motives to basic human needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness.
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Self‐determination theory and work motivation
Marylène Gagné,Edward L. Deci +1 more
TL;DR: The authors describes self-determination theory as a theory of work motivation and shows its relevance to theories of organizational behavior, which has received widespread attention in the education, health care, and sport domains.
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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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Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis.
TL;DR: In this article, a field experiment was conducted with children to test the "overjustification" hypothesis suggested by self-percepti on theory, the proposition that a person's intrinsic interest in an activity may be decreased by inducing him to engage in that activity as an explicit means to some extrinsic goal.
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The effects of contingent and noncontingent rewards and controls on intrinsic motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of external rewards and controls on intrinsic motivation and found that a person's intrinsic motivation to perform an activity decreased when he received contingent monetary payments, threats of punishment for poor performance, or negative feedback about his performance.
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Turning play into work: Effects of adult surveillance and extrinsic rewards on children's intrinsic motivation.
Mark R. Lepper,David Greene +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that participants who had undertaken the activity expecting an extrinsic reward showed less subsequent interest in the activity than those who had not expected a reward.
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Beyond Parkinson's law: the effect of excess time on subsequent performance.
Elliot Aronson,Eugene Gerard +1 more
TL;DR: Not only does a piece of work expand to fill the time available, but once it has expanded it continues to require more time, going beyond Parkinson's law.
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Further steps beyond Parkinson's Law: A replication and extension of the excess time effect
Elliot Aronson,David Landy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Aronson and Gerard's 1966 demonstration of the excess time effect was replicated, where subjects were "accidentally" allowed either five or fifteen minutes to perform a task which could be completed in five minutes.