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  2. Self-regulation theory - Wikipedia

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    Such as, when an event occurs an individual may feel greater a sense of control over the outcome that they demonstrably do not influence. This emphasizes the importance of perception of control over life events. The self-regulated learning is the process of taking control and evaluating one's own learning and behavior.

  3. Prosocial behavior - Wikipedia

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    Prosocial behaviour [1] is a social behavior that "benefit[s] other people or society as a whole", [2] "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering". The person may or may not intend to benefit others; the behaviour's prosocial benefits are often only calculable after the fact.

  4. Life-span model of motivation - Wikipedia

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    Motivation often comes in careers through compensation. Compensation can come socially, financially and in many other ways. Compensation can be a factor in work motivation. [7] Along with compensation in rewarding work through financial compensation, compensation through the failure and success of goals create motivation.

  5. Self-expansion model - Wikipedia

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    The central motivation for including the ingroup in the self parallels the self-expansion model at the interpersonal level. The self-expansion model suggests that we are strongly motivated to expand ourselves by including the other in the self. This occurs when an individual incorporates the other's perspectives, identities and resources.

  6. Empathy-altruism - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, C. Daniel Batson holds that people help others in need out of genuine concern for the well-being of the other person. [1] The key ingredient to such helping is empathic concern . According to Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis, if someone feels empathy towards another person, they will help them, regardless of what they can gain ...

  7. The Motivational Trick That Makes You Exercise Harder - AOL

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    Findings from Dai and others are pointing to a new science of PRs and how to nail them. Why PRs boost motivation. People become more motivated and excel more when they set specific goals. PR goals ...

  8. Social skills - Wikipedia

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    The process of learning these skills is called socialization. Lack of such skills can cause social awkwardness. Interpersonal skills are actions used to effectively interact with others. Interpersonal skills relate to categories of dominance vs. submission, love vs. hate, affiliation vs. aggression, and control vs. autonomy (Leary, 1957).

  9. Self-regulated learning - Wikipedia

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    Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the domains of self-regulation, and is aligned most closely with educational aims. [1] Broadly speaking, it refers to learning that is guided by metacognition (thinking about one's thinking), strategic action (planning, monitoring, and evaluating personal progress against a standard), and motivation to learn.