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Carol Furchner's List: Psy105-Chapter10 - Motivation
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Mar 11, 10
Review article attempts to isolate conditions where rewards do and do not affect intrinsic motivation in a negative way
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Dec 21, 10
Motivational web site - does it work?
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Mar 16, 11
Visualizing an outcome doesn't improve chances of success. Visualizing the process needed to get there does, possibly because in doing so you are also planning.
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Aug 01, 11
New views on what causes and prevents weight gain
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Dec 17, 11
"Failure is only a word that means you have produced some other result instead of your original goal. This article has some of the more famous failures in history and how they learned to succeed through failing."
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Jan 03, 12
Describes research trying to understand why people who are obese, then lose weight, have such difficulty maintaining the new weight. One finding: abnormally high levels of ghrelin, low levels of peptide YY and leptin, are maintained for at least a year after they stop dieting and try to maintain the new weight.
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Feb 23, 12
Does exertion of willpower deplete glucose, and is willpower restored with a sugary drink? Elegant research suggesting that motivation and the dopamine system may play a role in restoring willpower.
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Sep 06, 12
Studies done in rats and humans find association of low levels of adropin and obesity.
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Nov 18, 12
Researchers found larger placebo effects (reduction of pain) and larger activation of brain areas that release endorphins and lowered cortisol levels in people whose personality test scores were high on altruism, resilience, and straightforwardness, and low on anger-hostility. Interestingly, expectation of relief from pain and traits like hysteria and neuroticism had low correlations with the other measures of placebo effect.
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Dec 20, 12
13 motivational strategies and techniques that can and often do make a difference for students.
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Jul 11, 13
an overview of the large number of variables that can influence obesity. Even lab animals in the US - which generally have strictly controlled diets - have shown a trend towards gaining weight in the past 50 years. This could be partly due to the composition of commercial animal chow, the nature of the protein, fat, or carbs it contains... or other factors.
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Sep 06, 13
Lots more research to be done, however.
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Sep 06, 13
More complexities emerge in the transplantation of gut bacteria from slim and fat mice
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Apr 08, 14
Praise strategy, effort, success, not "intelligence."
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