Heutte, Jean
The scientific research concerning autotelic experience (flow) in human computer interactions was initiated in the 1980s, years before the emergence of positive psychology. It is therefore necessary to remain critical of the promise of positive technologies for learning. However, this field seems to have the potential for new opportunities for coll...
Daniels, Lia M. Goegan, Lauren D. Parker, Patti C.
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Social Psychology of Education
During the northern hemisphere Winter 2020 academic term, university students had to adjust to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This abrupt change provided a unique opportunity to examine students’ motivation, engagement and perceptions of success and cheating under two learning conditions, namely traditional and remote. We use...
Borrelli, Belinda Rueras, Nicolle Jurasic, Marianne
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Translational behavioral medicine
Smokers who are not motivated to quit are less likely to seek help or utilize medication for cessation, so it is critical to proactively reach them to motivate cessation. This study aims to determine feasibility and satisfaction of a smoking cessation induction intervention via a virtual reality (VR) headset worn during dental cleaning. Participant...
Moliner-Velázquez, Beatriz Fuentes-Blasco, Maria Gil-Saura, Irene
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Service Business
There is a renewed interest in the study of online word-of-mouth behavior due to the increasing use of the Internet and the development of social networks. This paper focuses on the receiver perspective to analyze the unequal influence of the antecedents of online consumer searches. The main purpose is to detect the heterogeneity of the effect of d...
Mason, Tyler B Do, Bridgette Dunton, Genevieve
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Eating and weight disorders : EWD
Motivation and self-regulation are two psychological systems that have been shown to be related to childhood obesity. This study evaluated independent and interactive associations of approach-oriented motivation (i.e., drive and reward responsiveness) and self-regulation (i.e., self-control and behavioral regulation) in relation to age- and sex-adj...
Magnan, Renee E. Gibson, Laurel P. Bryan, Angela D.
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Journal of Behavioral Medicine
The COVID-19 global pandemic is an unprecedented health threat for which behavior is critical to prevent spread and personal factors could contribute to decisions for protective action. The purpose of this study was to describe associations of COVID-19 related behaviors capturing a snapshot in time during the height of the first wave of the pandemi...
King, Christopher P. Tripi, Jordan A. Hughson, Alesa R. Horvath, Aidan P. Lamparelli, Alexander C. Holl, Katie L. Chitre, Apurva S. Polesskaya, Oksana Ishiwari, Keita Solberg Woods, Leah C.
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Scientific Reports
Sensitivity to cocaine and its associated stimuli (“cues”) are important factors in the development and maintenance of addiction. Rodent studies suggest that this sensitivity is related, in part, to the propensity to attribute incentive salience to food cues, which, in turn, contributes to the maintenance of cocaine self-administration, and cue-ind...
De Scheerder, Marie-Angélique van Bilsen, Ward P.H. Dullaers, Melissa Martinez-Picado, Javier Davidovich, Udi Vandekerckhove, Linos
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Journal of Virus Eradication
Objectives We aimed to investigate the motives, barriers and experiences of HIV-STAR study participants. The HIV-STAR study was an analytical HIV treatment interruption trial (ATI) aiming to evaluate the origin of viral rebound, conducted in Ghent, Belgium. Methods A mixed-method study was performed among 11 participants of the HIV-STAR study. Two ...
Smit, Crystal R. de Leeuw, Rebecca N. H. Bevelander, Kirsten E. Burk, William J. van Woudenberg, Thabo J. Buijs, Laura Buijzen, Moniek
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundThere is a need to develop and improve interventions promoting healthy drinking behaviors among children. A promising method could be to stimulate peer influence within children’s social networks. In the Share H2O social network intervention (SNI), peer influence was utilized by selecting a subset of influential children and training them...
Kührt, Corinna Pannasch, Sebastian Kiebel, Stefan J. Strobel, Alexander
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BMC Psychology
BackgroundIndividuals tend to avoid effortful tasks, regardless of whether they are physical or mental in nature. Recent experimental evidence is suggestive of individual differences in the dispositional willingness to invest cognitive effort in goal-directed behavior. The traits need for cognition (NFC) and self-control are related to behavioral m...