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Motivation

Known as: Motive, motivations 
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives… 
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2012
2012
Students’ Academic Motivations in Allied Health Classes
Purpose: Human Anatomy & Physiology [HAP] courses are considered “difficult” by both faculty and students, and many students fail… 
2012
2012
Understanding the information privacy-related perceptions and behaviors of an online social network user
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Review
2009
Review
2009
Reading Preferences among Different Generations: A Study of Attitudes and Choices in Singapore
A survey of reading habits of a selected group of readers between the ages of 28 and 43 in Singapore indicated that they tended… 
2009
2009
Plain and Twisted Adjoints of Well-Formed Words
This paper studies the mathematical basis for a new study of modes of well-formed (WF) scales, and presents a new… 
1983
1983
Alienation and drinking motivations among adolescent females.
The present study examined a hypothesized relation between alienation and stated motivations for alcohol use. It was predicted… 
Review
1969
Review
1969
A paradigm for the analysis of childbearing motivations of married women prior to birth of the first child.
Book reviewed in this article: Childbearing motivations involve a constellation of socially defined and idiosyncratic… 
1965
1965
Career anchorage: managerial mobility motivations.
Sociological theories of occupational mobility have incorporated two sets of assumptions about occupational aspiration. One… 
1965
1965
COMPETITIVE AND NONCOMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVE AND MANIFEST ANXIETY.
1962
1962
The creativity motive.
1960
1960
Partial and correlated reward in escape learning.
Previous studies (Campbell & Kraeling, 1953; Bower, Fowler, & Trapold, 1959) have demonstrated that magnitude of reinforcement…