▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the recent research on motivation, beliefs, values, and goals,
focusing on developmental and educational psychology. The authors divide the chapter into …

The authors argue against a purely behavioral definition of praise as verbal reinforcement in
favor of the view that praise may serve to undermine, enhance, or have no effect on …

This book discusses research and theory on how motivation changes as children progress
through school, gender differences in motivation, and motivational differences as an aspect …

The purpose of this paper is to review theories and evidence regarding the effects of
(performance-contingent) monetary incentives on individual effort and task performance. We …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding
incentives, contracts and organizations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow …

What is parental control? Is it positive or negative for children? What makes parents
controlling with their children, even when they value supporting children's autonomy? Are …

Our goal in this chapter is to comprehensively review the literature on motivation and sport
behavior. To do this, we describe theories or conceptual models of motivation that have …

Es besteht kein Zweifel daran, dass in diesem Forschungsansatz wichtige Sachverhalte
menschlichen Erlebens und Verhaltens aufgegriffen werden, und dass die vorliegenden …

The standard model of tax evasion based on the subjective expected utility maximization
does not perform particularly well in econometric analyses: It predicts too little evasion and …

This paper reports two studies involving data collected from 583 participants in Hong Kong
and 121 participants in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and examines the most …