Motivation is less fragile than people think. More often, what causes it to fail is the result of years of gradual erosion ...

Or the psychology of why we are driven to do what we do Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Incentive theory suggests we are motivated by rewards and not just internal desires. B. F. Skinner believed our ...

Traditional employee motivation strategies, like financial incentives, often yield only short-term results, failing to build lasting commitment. Leaders must instead cultivate self-driven extrinsic ...

Survey data shows that most people believe climate change is happening, but many don't act, and as a postdoctoral fellow in Annenberg School for Communication Professor Emily Falk's Communication ...

Individual motivation to act against climate change outweighs the impact of hyperlocal collective intentions, though both approaches are worth strengthening, according to a survey of nine European ...

One of the key features of depression is the lack of motivation to do things that you know you should really do. For example, you may think that you don't have the motivation to exercise, or spend ...

A collaborative study from researchers affiliated with the Annenberg School for Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and School of Arts & Sciences tested 17 strategies in an ‘intervention ...

Mentally, I wanted to get started. But emotionally, I just wasn’t ready. Until one day, I was. Over time, I’ve learned to use a counterintuitive three-word phrase to help me bridge that gap, to keep ...

What does it take to spur individuals to act as a group with a shared purpose on climate change? According to a new Stanford-led study, the key is to show them how collective actions on climate have ...

Displaying the effects of increasingly frequent environmental disasters and engaging religious communities is necessary to motivate action against climate change, George Steinmetz, a freelance ...