Our understanding of consumer decision making has historically been dominated by information-processing theory and, more recently, by behavioral decision research. These two perspectives have undeniably offered important insights about the cognitive processes underlying consumers’ decisions. However, there is more to consumer decision making than computer-like mental processes, judgment heurist...

This study is based on the achievement goal theory and intended to verify the effects of the motivational climate of the physical education (PE) on students’ motivation, interest, and intention to practice physical activity or sport. In order to meet these objectives, 975 participants, from 13 to 18 years of age, completed the following instruments: PECCS, TEOSQ, IMI, Satisfaction Scale, and th...

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to provide an in-depth analysis of how the Physical Education (PE) teaching context influences teachers’ motivational strategies towards students. Design: Qualitative semi-structured interviews Methods: Using Self-determination theory (Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). Psychological Enquiry, 11, 227268) as a guiding framework, semi-structured interviews...

Motivating students is a major issue for current Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Modern theories of motivation (such as the Self Determination Theory) have shown the positive motivational impact of autonomysupport. Following this idea, we have proposed in a previous work an autonomy-supportive motivational design for eLearning systems. Later, the importance to take learner’s culture into account ...

In this article we compare and integrate two well-established approaches to motivating therapeutic change, namely self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985, ) and motivational interviewing (MI; Miller & Rollnick, 1991, ). We show that SDT's theoretical focus on the internalization of therapeutic change and on the issue of need-satisfaction is fully compatible with key principles and cli...

This paper challenges the common assumption that the mechanisms underlying short-term placebo paradigms (where there is no motivation for health improvement) and long-term placebo paradigms (where patients value improvement in their health) are the same. Three types of motivational theory are reviewed: (i) classical placebo motivation theory that the placebo response results from the desire for...

In order to explain how DIYbio knowledge and expertise is developed and shared the use of Practice Theory will help us gain a useful understanding of how working practices are sustained, reproduced and potentially changed. In addition, the development and sharing of thick, evocative, rich descriptions of these practices might contribute to the motivational knowledge of DIYbio practitioners.

The Theory of planned behavior (TPB) was proposed by Icek Ajzen in 1988 which was an expectancy-value theory that provided a framework for the study of behavioral and normative beliefs affecting health behaviors. 1 The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a popular framework for understanding the informational and motivational influences of exercise and physical activity behavior, 2 and it can e...