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Motivation

Children and adults differ in how primary and secondary incentives modulate valuation, effort, and cognitive control

Sebastijan Veselic, Claire Rosalie Smid, Francis Beveridge, Nikolaus Steinbeis

published 15 Jun 2026

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From global to local: Developing a context-specific BeSD-HPV tool through cultural and linguistic adaptation in Pakistan

Khola Noreen, Mehreen Noor, Saba Maryam, Mukhtiar Baig

published 15 Jun 2026

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Muscimol injection into the ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus impairs tactile reward-seeking behavior but preserves affective vocalization in male rats

Rie Shimoju

published 10 Jun 2026

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Effects of a school-based ACT program on motivation, physical activity participation, motor competence, and physical performance in physically inactive female adolescent students

Hassan Gharayagh Zandi, Fatemeh Shaabani, Azam Noferesti, Elaheh Arab Ameri

published 10 Jun 2026

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From cheap entertainment to expensive pleasure: Cinema-going habits and motivations of young people in Türkiye

Nermin Küçüksönmez, Abdullah Koçak, Nuh Akçakaya

published 05 Jun 2026

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Students’ engagement with AI-supported learning and its association with academic interest and career intentions in business analytics education

Yang Cheng, Jaekuk Lee, Florence Martin, William Rand

published 04 Jun 2026

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Physical activity and sedentary behavior surveillance using accelerometers in Japanese urban adults: A descriptive study of participation and adherence

Naruki Kitano, Ryoko Kawakami, Yuya Fujii, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Yuko Muramatsu, Yuki Matsushita, Yosuke Mizuno, Sachiko Miyamoto, Tomohiko Yoshida, Yuko Kai, Takashi Arao

published 01 Jun 2026

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Curiosity in calamity: How personal schadenfreude shapes disaster-tourism intentions

Joshin Joseph, Mahmoud M Abdelwahab, Ibrahim Elbatal, Jiju Gillariose, Mustafa M. Hasaballah

published 28 May 2026

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Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) selected for high social motivation rely on conspecifics for buffering but not learning in sociocognitive tasks

Jeanne Seressia, Alexia Morel, Fabien Cornilleau, Julie Lemarchand, Léa Lansade, Christian Nawroth, Ludovic Calandreau, Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira

published 28 May 2026

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Digital motivation for cervical cancer screening: A quasi-experimental trial of the SeDAR Video among middle adulthood Malaysian women

Rodziah Romli, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Rahana Abd Rahman, Emma Mirza Wati Mohamad, Kah Teik Chew, Syahnaz Mohd Hashim

published 20 May 2026

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The relationship between task value of learning English and English achievement among art majors: A moderated chain mediation model analysis

Yan Qin, Xiaoming Wang, Bocun Zhang, Yue Zhang, Xiaoke Xie, Shihua Mao, Juan Wang, Yupeng Yang

published 15 May 2026

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Multidimensional performance characteristics of youth academy and club soccer players

Ulrikke Norill Kvalvaag, Hege R. Eriksen, Hilde Gundersen, Thomas Johansen, Anne Marte Pensgaard, Morten Kristoffersen

published 15 May 2026

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Optimising supervised machine learning algorithms predicting cigarette cravings and lapses for a smoking cessation just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI)

Corinna Leppin, Jamie Brown, Claire Garnett, Dimitra Kale, Tosan Okpako, David Simons, Olga Perski

published 14 May 2026

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