Hi all — I wanted to send out an announcement about the Self-Affirmation Mechanisms and Theory Conference that we are hosting here in Pittsburgh on Friday, July 26th and Saturday, July 27th. The deadline for submission is tomorrow, Friday May 10, so there’s still time to apply to present your research! Best of all, registration is $0 — that’s right, free.…
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Dear Fellow Motivation SIG Members, Please consider submitting a proposal to the Northeastern Educational Research Association’s (NERA) Annual Conference. The conference is in Trumbull, Connecticut on October 16-18 and proposals will be accepted from May 1st through June 2nd. NERA is one of AERA’s affiliate organizations and members of the Motivation SIG might find it’s a…
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Hello Motivation SIG Colleagues, We are conducting a meta-analysis of pre-post, quasi-experimental and experimental research comparing the effects of cooperation, competition and individualistic efforts on interest/value. Although we have already conducted a rigorous search of this literature, unpublished studies can be especially difficult to retrieve. We are therefore interested in receiving dissertations, conference presentations, or…
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Dear graduate student writer, You are invited to participate in a research study seeking to better understand graduate student writers’ daily writing-related emotional experiences and writing behaviors over time. You are being invited to participate because you are currently a graduate student in a writing-intensive discipline. Participation in the study is completely optional and will…
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Sign Up Here! The Motivation SIG Graduate Student Committee is hosting a graduate student event focused on networking and sharing in-progress research with each other. The event is meant to promote feedback and collaboration among peers, and will include an in-progress research session as well as an opportunity to mix and mingle…
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Dear Motivation SIG members, Are you a graduate student (doctoral or master’s) interested in studying giftedness, creativity, or talent? Do you want to learn more about how to be involved in the field? OR…Are you a faculty member, researcher, or other academic who researches or has a background in giftedness, creativity, or talent? Are you at least 3…
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Master’s program “M.Sc. Psychology: Learning Sciences” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany: Online Applications can be submitted now until 1st March through: https://www.portal.graduatecenter.uni-muenchen.de/ocgc/mscls This program is research-oriented and interdisciplinary and promotes a selected group of students to engage in state-of-the-art research in Educational Psychology and the Learning Sciences. The program is entirely taught in English.…
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Hello Colleagues, I am currently conducting a meta-analysis on the relationship between motivation and academic dishonesty as part of my dissertation with the assistance of my co-chair, Dr. Carlton Fong. We are interested in any and all studies that investigate this relationship, primarily in correlational studies. For example, we are interested in studies that assess…
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??? URGENT CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Vol. 15, Confronting Antisemitism on Campus Book Series: Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, & Praxis Peter Lang Publishing, General Editor, Dr. Virginia Stead Dedication: This book is dedicated to those who lost loved ones on October 27, 2018 in the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre, Pittsburgh, PA. Purpose:…
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Hello SIG Motivation Colleagues, We are conducting a meta-analysis of the relation between goal structures and achievement goals. Although we have already conducted a rigorous search of this literature, unpublished studies can be especially difficult to retrieve. Therefore, we are interested in receiving dissertations, conference presentations, or other unpublished work (master theses, manuscripts that are…
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