Beliefs about emotions can influence how people regulate their emotions. The present research examined whether Eastern dialectical beliefs about negative emotions lead to cultural differences in how people regulate their emotions after experiencing a negative event. We hypothesized that, because of dialectical beliefs about negative emotions prevalent in Eastern culture, Easterners are less mot...

This paper provides a game-theoretical description of social and motivational influence over belief dynamics of two arguing agents that hold contrasting views. The formal analysis shows how social influence depends on both (1) the agent’s own motives and (2) her beliefs concerning the motives of the other agent. Moreover, game-theoretical modelling of dialogical interaction with mutual ignoranc...

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of the motivational climate created by the coach and perceived by a group of young handball players on their goal orientations, their beliefs regarding reasons for success and their self-satisfaction. The study participants were 159 young handball players. Players were administered a battery composed of tests to measure the above-mentioned moti...

Delusions are deeply evidence-resistant. Patients with delusions unmoved by evidence that is in direct conflict the delusion, often responding to such offering obvious, and strange, confabulations. As a consequence, standard view not evidence-responsive. This claim has been used as key argumentative wedge debates on nature of delusions. Some have taken be beliefs argued this implies belief cons...

In this paper we show how defeasible logic could formally account for the non-monotonic properties involved in motivational attitudes like intention and obligation. Usually, normal modal operators are used to represent such attitudes wherein classical logical consequence and the rule of necessitation comes into play, i.e., ` A/ ` 2A, that is from ` A derive ` 2A. This means that such formalisms...

We propose a refined theory of basic individual values intended to provide greater heuristic and explanatory power than the original theory of 10 values (Schwartz, 1992). The refined theory more accurately expresses the central assumption of the original theory that research has largely ignored: Values form a circular motivational continuum. The theory defines and orders 19 values on the contin...

BACKGROUND Self-efficacy is an important predictor of health behaviour change. Within the health action process approach (HAPA; Schwarzer, 2008), motivational and volitional self-efficacy can be distinguished. Motivational self-efficacy is assumed to serve as predictor of intention formation whereas volitional self-efficacy should be relevant for behaviour change. This study examined these assu...

While previous studies demonstrated the existence of a ‘gender gap’, according to which girls outperform boys in their scholastic achievement, the reason for these differences is yet unclear. We used structural equation analyses and multiple-group comparisons to determine sex-specific influences of self-reported motivational variables (domain-specific self-perceived abilities, fear of failure) ...