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The Influence of Positive Affect on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation 325 (2003)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Isen, Alice M. Reeve, Johnmarshall |
| Abstract | Two experiments demonstrated that positive affect fosters intrinsic motivation, as reflected by choice of activity in a free-choice situation and by rated amount of enjoyment of a novel and challenging task, but also promotes responsible work behavior in a situation where the work needs to be done. Where there was work that needed to be done, people in the positive-affect condition reduced their time on the enjoyable task, successfully completed the work task, but also spent time on the more enjoyable task. These results indicate that positive affect does foster intrinsic motivation, and enjoyment and performance of enjoyable tasks, but not at the cost of responsible work behavior on an uninteresting task that needs to be done. Implications for the relationship between positive affect and such aspects of self-regulation as forward-looking thinking and self-control are discussed. KEY WORDS: self control; positive affect; intrinsic motivation. Recent research has reflected increasing interest in the influence of positive affect on cognitive processes and behavior. Over the past two decades researchers have investigated the impact that affect has on a wide variety of behavior and thought processes, including memory, decision making, risk preference, problem solving and creativity, to name just a few. Much of this work indicates that positive affect facilitates flexible thinking and problem solving, and enhances performance, even where the tasks to be done are complex, difficult, and important (see, for example, Isen, 2000, for an overview of some of this work, and Aspinwall, 1998, for discussion of applications of the findings). |
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| Journal | Journal of Educational Psychology |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Positive Affect Enjoyable Task Extrinsic Motivation Problem Solving Intrinsic Motivation Responsible Work Behavior Rated Amount Decision Making Enhances Performance Decade Researcher Self Control Work Task Risk Preference Uninteresting Task Positive Affect Foster Intrinsic Motivation Spent Time Forward-looking Thinking Free-choice Situation Flexible Thinking Recent Research Cognitive Process Positive-affect Condition Key Word Wide Variety Thought Process |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
