Boring but Important: A Self-Transcendent Purpose for Learning Fosters Academic Self-Regulation

Many important learning tasks feel uninteresting and tedious to learners. This research proposed that promoting a prosocial, self-transcendent purpose could improve academic self-regulation on such tasks. This proposal was supported in four studies with over 2,000 adolescents and young adults. Study...

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Published in:J Pers Soc Psychol
Main Authors: Yeager, David S., Henderson, Marlone D., D’Mello, Sidney, Paunesku, David, Walton, Gregory M., Spitzer, Brian J., Duckworth, Angela Lee
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643833/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25222648
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037637
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