Motivation requires direction. It is one thing to want to accomplish a goal, but it is another actually to carry out the task by acting on the motivation. Directional motivation is the momentum a ...

Most people have at some time been cajoled into doing something, and most have done things for a reward. What is involved in these situations is extrinsic motivation. Conventional psychological theory ...

It’s the end of a long practice. I’m out of breath, my cheeks are red hot, and my arms feel like spaghetti noodles. I look at the clock to see I only have a few seconds until the next rep. Everything ...

Over the past decade, Jackie Andrade and Jon May of the University of Plymouth (UK) have been fine-tuning a unique approach to behavioral change called Functional Imagery Training. FIT uses ...

Is feeling motivated a bit more challenging for you these days? It may be a consequence of overall COVID-19 burnout. Alternatively, it could be pandemic-related parental burnout. In fact, even before ...

Since their simultaneous discovery by two groups 1,2, orexin/hypocretin neurons have been implicated in numerous functions, including regulating sleep/wake cycles, arousal, reward seeking, cognition, ...