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Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1988-03-01. It has received 15849 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Goal theory & Overjustification effect.read more
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A question of belonging: race, social fit, and achievement.
TL;DR: Two experiments tested how belonging uncertainty undermines the motivation and achievement of people whose group is negatively characterized in academic settings, and an intervention that mitigated doubts about social belonging in college raised the academic achievement of Black students but not of White students.
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Conceptualizing Willingness to Communicate in a L2: A Situational Model of L2 Confidence and Affiliation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an account of the linguistic, communicative, and social psychological variables that might affect one's "willingness to communicate" and suggest potential relations among these variables by outlining a comprehensive conceptual model that may be useful in describing, explaining and predicting L2 communication.
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Toward a Conceptualization of Optimal Self-Esteem.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical perspective on the nature of "optimal" self-esteem and show that high selfesteem can be fragile or secure depending upon the extent to which it is defensive or genuine, contingent or true, unstable or stable, and discrepant or congruent with implicit feelings of selfworth.
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An Educational Psychology Success Story: Social Interdependence Theory and Cooperative Learning
TL;DR: More than 1,200 research studies have been conducted in the past 11 decades on cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts as mentioned in this paper, and the results from these studies have validated, modified, refined, and extended the theory.
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