Editor’s note: This is a special guest post from Jordan Miller-Ziegler, a graduate student in the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.

With the new year approaching, millions of people will turn to apps to help them get fit, save money or learn something new. Yet digital tools designed to help individuals achieve goals can sometimes ...

It has been well established that workers’ goals have an impact on their motivation. How goals are handled makes a difference in outcomes. A substantial amount of research has focused on how the ...

The achievement goal framework examines how students’ objectives shape motivation, engagement and performance in educational contexts. Goals represent the underlying reasons why learners approach or ...

Gamification is the application of gaming mechanics in a non-gaming context. These can be applied to different areas of life, with each requiring different approaches. Businesses can use gaming ...

In the journey of life, success is not merely a destination but a continuous voyage marked by milestones of personal achievement and fulfillment. It is the culmination of dreams, hard work and the ...

Feedback affects motivation toward goals in complex ways Nevertheless, the story highlighted something really interesting about a topic I think about a lot: the complex ways that feedback about our ...