We’ve all done it. We’ve chosen a diet or workout plan that will get us in shape; said we’re going to spend less time on our cellphones and more time reading; or committed to making the most out of ...

Our class brainstormed what were the most important obstacles in online learning and we came up with four main categories: Environment, Motivation, Organization ...

Students have noticed a decrease in their academic motivation. (Photo illustration by Preston Crawley) Hundreds of BYU students have noticed a decrease in motivation after COVID-19 shut down a lot of ...

2020 has tested everyone's resilience. The traumatic events of the first three months of the year — threats of war, fires, Covid-19 — were then compounded by a social inequality uprising with a call ...

We will define communication here as interpersonal interaction, and in-person university classes facilitate repeated interpersonal interactions Re-iteration of social interactions forces people to ...

“Doing what’s meaningful — acting on what really matters to a person — is the antidote to burnout.” By Jane E. Brody Maintaining motivation is becoming an increasing challenge for many people slogging ...

Children are often more creative, braver and happier because they do things for the joy of doing them. They are "intrinsically" motivated and carry out activities that they care about. What if we ...

Today’s guest blogger is Ayelet Fishbach, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and president of the Society for the Study of Motivation. How do I make plans for teaching ...