Recent research has demonstrated that the cognitive processes associated with goal pursuit can continue to interfere with unrelated tasks when a goal is unfulfilled. Drawing from the self-regulation and goal-striving literatures, the present study explored the impact of goal failure on subsequent cognitive and physical task performance. Furthermore, we examined if the autonomous or controlled m...

We cannot afford to ignore, as physicians or citizens, the biological attributes of sex in the study of behaviour, achievement or disease. The biological sciences, borrowing many facts from medical and pathological experience, have established a few fundamental principles of great value in the study of primary and secondary sex differentiation, and in the light of these principles our knowledge...

Developing upon cross-sectional research (Smith, Ntoumanis, & Duda, 2007) supporting the self-concordance model (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999) as a framework for contextual goal striving, the current study investigated the assumptions of the model in relation to season-long goal striving in sport. The study additionally examined the role of coping strategies in the persistence of goal-directed effort...

Qualitative reasoning about electrical systems has reached a level of achievement which allows it to be used for applications on realistic automotive circuits . The type of circuits for which it is most effective can be characterised as circuits with a single steady state for each combination of inputs . Many automotive circuits with more complex overall behaviour can be approximated using this...

Considering the importance yet paucity of help-seeking in e-learning, the present study investigated the motivational antecedents of help-seeking among online college students. We explored and compared the influences of achievement approach goals from the old and new achievement motivation models (Elliot & McGregor, 2001; Elliot, Murayama, & Pekrun, 2011) on online students’ help-seeking throug...

Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates? Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the overall achievement. A cooperative learning approach...

Why should we focus on the early years? One reason is the accumulation of evidence that indicates that the child's experience in the early years has profound consequences for later life. There are now many studies that present a consistent picture indicating that adversity in early life, such as frequently accompanies child poverty, is linked to: poor adult mental and physical health , adult mo...

Inspired by the so-called “bugs” problem from mathematics, we propose a cyclic pursuit strategy for multivehicle formations. A particular version of this pursuit problem is studied for a system of n wheeled vehicles, each subject to a single nonholonomic constraint, towards the achievement of certain trajectories in the plane. A full stability analysis is provided for the special case when n = ...

We propose an account of indirect forms of speech acts to request and inform based on the hypothesis that language users can recognize actions being performed by others, infer goals being sought, and cooperate in their achievement. This cooperative behaviour is independently motivated and may or may not be intended by speakers. If the hearer believes it is intended, he or she can recognize the ...

Recognising that practical intelligence plays an important role in an individual’s job success, we explore whether differences in practical intelligence exist between male and female workers in the ICT industry. Taking an interpretive approach we found patterns and themes in the responses to workplace scenarios of ICT workers in three organizations from the viewpoint of gender: Assertiveness, E...