Psychologists who study why people want to learn and how needs, goals, self-belief and choice drive effort, including the hierarchy of needs, self-determination theory, goal setting, mindset and choice theory. A person belongs here when the cited article names motivation, needs, self-concept, goal setting or choice as the person's work. It excludes cognitive and behaviorist researchers, who sit in their own groups. Their work shaped how teachers think about student interest, autonomy and the conditions that help learners persist.
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Wikipedia: Richard M. Ryan
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Deci, of Self-Determination Theory (SDT), one of the most influential theories of human motivation.
Wikipedia: Carol Dweck
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Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset.
Wikipedia: Herbert W. Marsh
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Herbert W. Marsh is an educational psychologist who has published influential research on self-concept, motivation and university students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness.
Wikipedia: Abraham Maslow
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Abraham Harold Maslow ( MAZ-loh; April 1, 1908, June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
Wikipedia: Edward L. Deci
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With Richard Ryan, he was the co-founder of self-determination theory (SDT), an influential contemporary motivational theory.
Wikipedia: Edwin Locke
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Edwin A. Locke (born May 15, 1938) is an American psychologist and a pioneer of goal-setting theory.
William Glasser (Wikipedia)
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He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory.
New World Encyclopedia: Carl Rogers
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Rogers was the first to conceptualize Person-centered therapy , and was a well-known counselor, personality theorist, and a key developer of Humanistic psychology .
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