Motivated research

How to build a motivated research group.

Motivated group members experience a full sense of choice: of doing what one wants. Such behavior shows high performance, is enjoyable, and enhances innovation. This essay describes principles of building a motivated research group.

Motivated Agents Motivated Agents

We 1 present a method for controlling autonomous agents in un-predictible environments. For this, the agent's architecture of Hayes-Roth et al. (1995) is extended regarding spontaneous goal generation and goal selection. This method seems psychologically plausible under the term motivation. In addition, its implementation exhibits attractive real-time characteristics, relating environment, agen...

Youth Participation in Hate-Motivated Crimes: Research and Policy Implications

On How to Conduct Experimental Research with Self-Motivated Agents

We argue that experimental methodologies are harder to apply when self-motivated agents are involved, especially when the issue of choice gains its due relevance in their model. We use a choice-oriented agent architecture to illustrate a means of bridging the distance between the observer and the actors of an experiment. Traditional experimentation has to give way to exploratory simulation, to ...

Motivated Thinking

At one time or another, every one of us has engaged in “wishful thinking,” or “let our hearts influence our heads.” That is, every one of us has felt the effects of our motivations on our thought processes. Given this common everyday experience, it is not surprising that an essential part of early psychological research was the idea that drives, needs, desires, motives, and goals can profoundly...