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Howard Motivation Remains a Question
As Dwight Howard finishes what almost certainly will be his last year in Orlando, it's tough to get inside the head of the NBA's best big man. You can almost understand why he wants to go on to greener pastures -- just as Shaquille O'Neal did a very long generation ago...
Read more...Is there a general motivation center in the depths of the brain?
( INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) ) A team coordinated by Mathias Pessiglione, Inserm researcher at the Centre de recherche en neurosciences de la Pitié Salpêtrière have identified the part of the brain driving motivation during actions that combine physical and mental effort: the ventral striatum. The results of their study were published in PLoS Biology on ...
Read more...Psychology Professor Studies Science of Motivation
Social psychologist Tory Higgins, who earned his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1973 and has been on the faculty since 1989, has spent nearly 30 years conducting research on motivation and has written a new book on the topic. In Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works , he details his findings and conclusions, drawing upon more than 1,000 experiments, including more than 250 he and his ...
Read more...Nation on Trial Blog: Motivation is what you need
Motivation is what gets you started. Heart is what keeps you going, writes Stuart Amos.
Read more...Motivation key to weight and health
IF YOU can relate to yo-yo dieting, binge eating and never reaching your goals, then here is how to get and keep motivated to lose weight and be healthy.
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