All Research Papers Published In Motivation Science

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10.1037/mot0000422.supp

Supplemental Material for Exploring the Role of Emotions in Metamotivational Monitoring in Strategic Task Selection

Feb 26, 2026
Motivation Science

Research Article
10.1037/mot0000419

A look at the self-growth process: The role of passion and mastery goals in contextual and global self-growth.

Jan 08, 2026
Motivation Science
Robert J Vallerand + 3 more +3

Research Article
10.1037/mot0000415.supp

Supplemental Material for And Yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance

Nov 13, 2025
Motivation Science

Research Article
10.1037/mot0000414.supp

Supplemental Material for Candidate Antecedents of Need Supportive and Need Thwarting Interpersonal Styles: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sep 22, 2025
Motivation Science

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10.1037/mot0000382

Learning contexts matter: Having value-supportive instructors moderates the efficacy of a utility-value intervention in community college math.

Sep 01, 2025
Motivation Science
Delaram A Totonchi + 9 more +9

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10.1037/mot0000409

Individualizing proenvironmental behavior in the context of structural impediments.

Aug 11, 2025
Motivation Science
Gabriele Oettingen + 1 more +1

Research Article
10.1037/mot0000408.supp

Supplemental Material for Sign Tracking and Alcohol Consumption: A Translational Computerized Task Assessing Individual Differences in Humans

Aug 07, 2025
Motivation Science

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10.1037/mot0000404

Harming In Order To Help: An Empirical Characterization of Prosocial Aggression.

Jun 30, 2025
Motivation science
Samuel J West + 3 more +3

People sometimes inflict harm with the intent to help the very target of their aggression. Across six studies (N=1,527), we examined the nature of such prosocial aggression. Many participants believed that altruistically-motivated aggression exists and exhibited a self-serving bias in which most believed their aggression was more altruistic than others' - beliefs that were linked to greater antisocial and prosocial traits. Translating these beliefs to behavior, participants were often prosocially-aggressive when given the chance - inflicting more harm when their aggression could also help (versus only hurt) the target. Such prosocial aggression also exhibited features of both aggression (i.e., it was positively correlated with dispositional aggressiveness) and altruism (i.e., it was preferentially doled out to people who had been previously kind to participants and even when it was personally costly to do so). We also independently varied the amount of harm and help that prosocial aggression provided, revealing that participants sought to maximize the help and minimize the harm done to people who had been kind to them but not towards those who had provoked them. Our findings argue against models that conceptualize harm- and help-based motives as opponent processes, showing that these motives readily coexist and dynamically interact to shape aggressive behavior - even towards the same target.

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10.1037/mot0000363

The reactive spiral: An initial empirical assessment.

Jun 01, 2025
Motivation Science
Jason T Siegel + 1 more +1

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10.1037/mot0000364

Rebels for a reason: How psychological reactance is goal-directed.

Jun 01, 2025
Motivation Science
Birga M Schumpe + 1 more +1