Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Conscientiousness is a personality construct that is a core determinant of health, positive
aging, and human capital. A large body of work has contributed to our understanding of this …

The present study investigated whether satisfaction and frustration of the psychological
needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence, as identified within Basic Psychological …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …

Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

This book provides an introduction to motivational research on the basis of everyday
phenomena and self-awareness. The discussion leads from explanations based on instinct …

In this chapter, we provide a primer on the social psychological study of power and capture
emerging themes that we think are likely to develop into the next wave of research on power …

Making a successful video game is hard. Even games that are well-received at launch may
fail to engage players in the long term due to issues with the user experience (UX) that they …

The development of personality across the human life course may be observed from three
different standpoints: the person as actor (behaving), agent (striving), and author (narrating) …

Physical activity theories have almost exclusively focused on conscious regulatory
processes such as plans, beliefs, and expected value. The aim of this review was to …