Showing posts with label Motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motivation. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2010

Hunger and Motivation: Check it Out

Just in time for the holidays: can thinking about eating help you eat less? This was on NPR this morning and speaks directly to Hunger motivation. It's a short and sweet little treat.

Taylor, Derrick and other undercover artists should love this animated piece about the effect of rewards on motivation.

Share what your thoughts!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Take this one to Heart! (or to the Cerebral Cortex, or wherever)

What's more important brains or determination? You may or may not be surprised by the findings of a research team from the University of Pennsylvania.

Read the article "Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ...."  . This article is typical of some that you may find yourself encountering next year, so I'd like to hear your opinion about three things; the results of the research, how it is related to what you've looked at withing the field of motivation and how you feel about the level of the article itself (comprehension difficulty, presentation of statistics etc.)