Ever wonder why starting feels harder than finishing? Brain research shows stress can quietly block motivation before action ...

Before buying a wearable or exercise app, take time to identify the inspiration and structure needed to build — and maintain ...

Understanding the different types of motivation will help you make sense of why your focus on losing weight may make it hard ...

I recently attended a meeting where they handed out cards to each person. Arriving at my seat, I read the card, saying, "What's the one thing in life that you have almost given up on?" This question ...

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep a streaker from their self-appointed activity. janiecbros/E+ via Getty Images One user’s Wordle streak of more than a month’s worth of wins.

Most of us know the feeling: maybe it is making a difficult phone call, starting a report you fear will be criticized, or ...

A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ...

Survey data shows that most people believe climate change is happening, but many don't act, and as a postdoctoral fellow in Annenberg School for Communication Professor Emily Falk's Communication ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

Researchers suggest that, from a clinical perspective, the findings provide mechanistic insight into motivational deficits central to psychiatric disorders.