If we pride ourselves on being good students, losing motivation is what takes a toll on our mental health. We can’t study, so we feel bad about ourselves, which just makes it harder to study.

Motivation is a notoriously difficult thing to measure and study. The conclusions here are based on what students say on survey questionnaires. In the underlying studies, researchers weren’t able to ...

Bestselling author Daniel H. Pink has unveiled a unique motivation formula, blending Harvard research with Jerry Seinfeld's ...

New study of faculty motivation for teaching says certain kinds of motivation -- intrinsic and believing that teaching is important -- are linked to use of best teaching practices, across institution ...

A new Icelandic study finds men score slightly higher than women in passion for achievement and self-efficacy, while both ...

It's not that low-income students don't want to study various areas, but their motivation for enrolling in college may be more related to a desire to improve their financial situation, and that has a ...

Extrinsic motivation is a nice way of describing when you do things primarily to receive a reward. You might take a new job because of the higher pay and better benefits package. Then you work 60 ...

Lack of motivation is a real and pressing problem. Upwards of 40 percent of high school students are chronically disengaged from school, according to a 2003 National Research Council report on ...