“[A]fter I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year” (Einstein, 1959, p. 17). This is Einstein’s explanation, in his autobiographical notes, for how coercive taking exams felt to him. Einstein is not the only scientist who found school demotivating. Charles Darwin, Carl Jung, and Michael Faraday also reported exp...

Medical writing activities which may have a context and seem to be engaging may be perceived as demotivating by the students of medicine. This opinion was confirmed by the learners' responses to the open-ended question given to them prior to this study. In their responses students evaluated the writing section of English course negatively. The negative views about the writing course posed a pro...

Abstract The importance of having highly motivated teaching staffs is widely recognised and most institutions implement various policies incentives designed to stimulate their teachers’ motivation. It equally important recognise forces which have the potential demotivate teachers. Among these forces, previous research has shown student-related factors be detrimental teacher Our aims were examin...

This paper identifies the causal impact of a retrenchment of pension rights on the job motivation of negatively reciprocal workers. The paper complements the evidence from lab experiments that highlight the behavioral relevance of reciprocity in stylized labor markets. We use unique matched survey and administrative data that include individual measures of reciprocity. Our data set covers male ...

Research has shown that extrinsic incentives can crowd out intrinsic motivation in many contexts. Despite this, many nonprofits offer conditional thank-you gifts, such as mugs or tote bags, in exchange for donations. In collaboration with a nonprofit, this study implements a direct mail field experiment and demonstrates that thank-you gifts reduced donation rates in a fundraising campaign. Atte...

Abstract This paper presents the findings of a descriptive survey research that investigated what makes students dislike Mathematics and seeks potentially effective teaching practices, to boost their interest. The study involved 94 participants, including 60 lower-level secondary school 34 teachers from 5 schools in Karongi District, Western Province, Rwanda. Both students’ teachers’ questionna...

In the current study, we investigated motivational status and underlying factors of changes among Japanese medical science students brought by COVID-19 pandemic. Two groups second-year undergraduate (training to become technologists and/or researchers) participated in this study summers 2020 2021 writing essays describing how pandemic had affected their motivation study. A content analysis (bot...