New research suggests that motivation acts less like a volume knob for effort and more like a camera lens that changes how ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

We sometimes look at motivation backwards: We assume there must be an outcome or reward in order to get ourselves or others motivated to act. This is not what science shows us. One of the key ...

In this forum, we will discuss the current state of student motivation and engagement in our schools. By reviewing the research, we’ll aim to answer critical questions such as what exactly motivates ...

Researchers from multiple countries have noted a critical challenge in early childhood education: children often develop negative perceptions of science as "difficult" before they even reach primary ...

Motivation and I have always had a complicated relationship. If motivation were a person, it would be that friend who shows up with a lot of energy and insists that we do all the work that we need to ...

From working remotely to getting comfortable with at-home workouts, the Covid pandemic has uprooted most of our routines, and interfered with our motivation. Motivation tends to drop when you feel a ...

Researchers identified a direct connection between cancer-related inflammation and the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer. In a mouse study, they describe a brain pathway that starts ...