A significant relationship between motivational deficit and poor cognitive performance in people with schizophrenia, researchers report. "Loss of motivation is a core feature of schizophrenia that we ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current knowledge regarding cannabis effects on human behavior may not be applicable to current day use of the ...

Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode "The art of choosing what to do" Why do hard-working people sometimes lose their motivation? Behavioral scientist Ayelet Fishbach explains where motivation comes from, ...

How do you think about thinking? Source: Pixabay, no attribution required. Metacognition, as defined by Schunk (2006, p. 180), is “the deliberate conscious control of cognitive activity.” There are ...

We are all prone to motivated reasoning in which our personal goals distort our beliefs. For example, most drivers and most professors think they are above average. Ziva Kunda’s 1990 paper “The Case ...

Dr. Crawford will be joining the faculty in the Center for Vital Longevity at UT Dallas in August 2026 to direct the Motivated Cognition and Healthy Aging Lab. Her lab will focus on the earliest ...

As we navigate our daily lives, our choices are influenced by the information we gather. For example, how rewarding will it be to read this article, and is it worth the time and energy? How our brains ...

Contemporary research into media communication increasingly focusses on how audiences process, respond to, and retain information presented through various channels. Cognitive processing refers to the ...

July 30, 2014 (Toronto) – New research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows a significant relationship between motivational deficit and poor cognitive performance in people ...