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Motivated Action

Motivated Action is a narrative event or agent behavior in a story that arises from discernible psychological, emotional, or goal-directed reasons, thereby distinguishing it from arbitrary or externally imposed actions by being intrinsically justified within the narrative’s causal structure.

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2017–2026

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Who Am I and What Am I Going to Do With My Life? Personal and Collective Identities as Motivators of Action

Jacquelynne S. Eccles · Educational Psychologist · 2009 · 1.4K citations

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Motivated attention : affect, activation, and action

Peter J. Lang, Margaret M. Bradley, Bruce N. Cuthbert · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1997 · 1.4K citations

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Motivation to learn: an overview of contemporary theories

David A. Cook, Anthony R. Artino · Medical Education · 2016 · 1K citations · Full text

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A cognitive (attribution)-emotion-action model of motivated behavior: An analysis of judgments of help-giving.

Bernard Weiner · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1980 · 1K citations

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A functional behavioristic approach to aversively motivated behavior: Predatory imminence as a determinant of the topography of defensive behavior.

Michael S. Fanselow, Laurie S. Lester · 1988 · 511 citations

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Authors

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  1. AR
    Alfred R. Mele

    Davidson College, United States

    3 publications · 115 citations

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  2. GS
    Gaurav Suri

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 53 citations

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  3. MJ
    Marta Jorba

    University of the Basque Country, Spain

    2 publications · 54 citations

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  4. MD
    Mary Dozier

    University of Delaware, United States

    2 publications · 23 citations

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  5. BH
    Brad Hooker

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 117 citations

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Institutions

203

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    676 citations

  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    122 citations

  3. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    520 citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    413 citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    700 citations

  6. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    305 citations

  7. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    2 publications

    39 citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    324 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Neuroscience

    6 publications · 489 citations

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  2. Frontiers in Psychology

    3 publications · 178 citations

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  3. Philosophical Explorations

    3 publications · 98 citations

    3

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  4. Review of General Psychology

    3 publications · 81 citations

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  5. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    3 publications · 143 citations

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