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  1. We know this much is (meta-analytically) true: A meta-review of meta-analytic findings evaluating self-determination theory.
  2. Adherence to COVID-19 measures: The critical role of autonomous motivation on a short- and long-term basis.
  3. Paths to the light and dark sides of human nature: A meta-analytic review of the prosocial benefits of autonomy and the antisocial costs of control.
  4. Building a science of motivated persons: Self-determination theory’s empirical approach to human experience and the regulation of behavior.
  5. A legacy unfinished: An appreciative reply to comments on self-determination theory’s frontiers and challenges.
  6. Patterns of life goals that are focused on helping others best support one's own well-being
  7. A classification of motivation and behavior change techniques used in self-determination theory-based interventions in health contexts.
  8. Mindfulness and Its Association With Varied Types of Motivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using Self-Determination Theory
  9. The Possibilities of Aloneness and Solitude: Developing an Understanding Framed through the Lens of Human Motivation and Needs
  10. Research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation is alive, well, and reshaping 21st-century management approaches: Brief reply to Locke and Schattke (2019).
  11. A configural approach to aspirations: The social breadth of aspiration profiles predicts well-being over and above the intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that comprise the profiles
  12. The perceived conditions for living well: Positive perceptions of primary goods linked with basic psychological needs and wellness
  13. Self-determination theory applied to physical education: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
  14. Expanding the Map of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations Using Network Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling: Examining Four New Aspirations
  15. Distinguishing between basic psychological needs and basic wellness enhancers: the case of beneficence as a candidate psychological need
  16. Classification of Techniques Used in Self-Determination Theory-Based Interventions in Health Contexts: An Expert Consensus Study
  17. Conceptualizing and testing a new tripartite measure of coach interpersonal behaviors
  18. Integrative emotion regulation: Process and development from a self-determination theory perspective
  19. Validation Of The Social Identity Group Need Satisfaction And Frustration Scale
  20. Toward a Social Psychology of Authenticity: Exploring Within-Person Variation in Autonomy, Congruence, and Genuineness Using Self-Determination Theory
  21. Brick by Brick: The Origins, Development, and Future of Self-Determination Theory
  22. Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
  23. Reflections on self-determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business
  24. Enhancing social functioning in young people at Ultra High Risk (UHR) for psychosis: A pilot study of a novel strengths and mindfulness-based online social therapy
  25. Supporting Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness: The Coaching Process From a Self-Determination Theory Perspective
  26. Users’ Intrinsic Goals Linked to Alcohol Dependence Risk Level and Engagement With a Health Promotion Website (Hello Sunday Morning): Observational Study
  27. A meta-analysis of techniques to promote motivation for health behaviour change from a self-determination theory perspective
  28. Effects of a Dual-Approach Instruction on Students’ Science Achievement and Motivation
  29. Community Gardening: Basic Psychological Needs as Mechanisms to Enhance Individual and Community Well-Being
  30. Identifying Personality Characteristics associated with the Capacity to be Alone using Big-Five Theory, Attachment Theory, and Self-Determination Theory
  31. Cognitive and Affective Benefits of a Mindful State in Response to and in Anticipation of Pain
  32. Parental autonomy support predicts lower internalized homophobia and better psychological health indirectly through lower shame in lesbian, gay and bisexual adults.
  33. Designing for Motivation, Engagement and Wellbeing in Digital Experience
  34. Leader autonomy support in the workplace: A meta-analytic review
  35. Self-Determination Theory in Human Resource Development: New Directions and Practical Considerations
  36. “I can’t wait for the next episode!” Investigating the motivational pull of television dramas through the lens of self-determination theory.
  37. Benefits of emotional integration and costs of emotional distancing
  38. Solitude as an Approach to Affective Self-Regulation
  39. Examining links from civic engagement to daily well-being from a self-determination theory perspective
  40. Evidence of a continuum structure of academic self-determination: A two-study test using a bifactor-ESEM representation of academic motivation
  41. The link between perceived maternal and paternal autonomy support and adolescent well-being across three major educational transitions.
  42. Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Scholars in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences: Effects on Quality of Mentoring Interactions and Discussions
  43. Autonomy in Adolescent Development
  44. Commentary: Primary Emotional Systems and Personality: An Evolutionary Perspective
  45. Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter?
  46. Daily Autonomy Support and Sexual Identity Disclosure Predicts Daily Mental and Physical Health Outcomes
  47. Motivating young language learners: A longitudinal model of self-determined motivation in elementary school foreign language classes
  48. Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life
  49. The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation: A New Frontier in Self-Determination Research
  50. Self-Determination Theory in Work Organizations: The State of a Science
  51. Daily stress and the benefits of mindfulness: Examining the daily and longitudinal relations between present-moment awareness and stress responses
  52. Students’ Motivational Profiles in the Physical Education Context
  53. Epilogue – Distinct Motivations and Their Differentiated Mechanisms: Reflections on the Emerging Neuroscience of Human Motivation
  54. Outcomes of theSmoker’s Health Project: a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of tobacco-dependence interventions based on self-determination theory
  55. Toward a positive psychology of indigenous thriving and reciprocal research partnership model
  56. Correction: Mindfulness Enhances Episodic Memory Performance: Evidence from a Multimethod Investigation
  57. Editorial for “Positive Computing: A New Partnership Between Psychology, Social Sciences and Technologists”
  58. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Minorities
  59. Enhancing physical function in HIV-infected older adults: A randomized controlled clinical trial.
  60. Mindfulness Enhances Episodic Memory Performance: Evidence from a Multimethod Investigation
  61. Prosocial behavior increases well-being and vitality even without contact with the beneficiary: Causal and behavioral evidence
  62. Autonomy and Autonomy Disturbances in Self-Development and Psychopathology: Research on Motivation, Attachment, and Clinical Process
  63. Building Autonomous Learners
  64. Eudaimonia as a Way of Living: Connecting Aristotle with Self-Determination Theory
  65. Can Being Autonomy-Supportive in Teaching Improve Students’ Self-Regulation and Performance?
  66. On Enhancing and Diminishing Energy Through Psychological Means
  67. Optimizing Students’ Motivation in the Era of Testing and Pressure: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
  68. Understanding Motivation in Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
  69. Autonomy support and diastolic blood pressure: Long term effects and conflict navigation in romantic relationships
  70. Materialism, Spending, and Affect: An Event-Sampling Study of Marketplace Behavior and Its Affective Costs
  71. Nussbaum’s Capabilities and Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs: Relating Some Fundamentals of Human Wellness
  72. The Benefits of Benevolence: Basic Psychological Needs, Beneficence, and the Enhancement of Well-Being
  73. The Impact of Every Classroom, Every Day on High School Student Achievement: Results From a School-Randomized Trial
  74. Righting the Wrong: Reparative Coping After Going Along With Ostracism
  75. A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Fostering Healthy Self-Regulation From Within and Without
  76. Family partner intervention influences self-care confidence and treatment self-regulation in patients with heart failure
  77. Handbook of Mindfulness and Self-Regulation
  78. The importance of autonomy support and the mediating role of work motivation for well-being: Testing self-determination theory in a Chinese work organisation
  79. Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures
  80. Diminished neural responses predict enhanced intrinsic motivation and sensitivity to external incentive
  81. Mindfulness, Work Climate, and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Employee Well-being
  82. Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview
  83. Components of Sleep Quality as Mediators of the Relation Between Mindfulness and Subjective Vitality Among Older Adults
  84. Mindfulness, Interest‐Taking, and Self‐Regulation:A Self‐Determination Theory Perspective on the Role of Awareness in Optimal Functioning
  85. Autonomy and Need Satisfaction in Close Relationships: Relationships Motivation Theory
  86. Autonomy support influences daily coming out experiences
  87. Benevolence and Basic Psychological Needs: Evidence for Independent Effect on Well-Being
  88. Competence-impeding electronic games and players’ aggressive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
  89. Symptoms of Wellness
  90. The Importance of Universal Psychological Needs for Understanding Motivation in the Workplace
  91. How Self-Determined Choice Facilitates Performance: A Key Role of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
  92. The Ombudsman: Do CEOs’ Aspirations for Wealth Harm Stockholders?
  93. A Trial of Family Partnership and Education Interventions in Heart Failure
  94. Changes in materialism, changes in psychological well-being: Evidence from three longitudinal studies and an intervention experiment
  95. The Human Quest for Meaning
  96. Validation of the revised sport motivation scale (SMS-II)
  97. Self-Esteem Issues and Answers
  98. Hurting You Hurts Me Too
  99. The Integrative Process
  100. On psychological growth and vulnerability: Basic psychological need satisfaction and need frustration as a unifying principle.
  101. Fostering Healthy Self-Regulation from Within and Without: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
  102. Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning
  103. The index of autonomous functioning: Development of a scale of human autonomy
  104. Self-Determination Theory Applied to Health Contexts
  105. Motivation and the Organization of Human Behavior: Three Reasons for the Reemergence of a Field
  106. Motivation, Personality, and Development Within Embedded Social Contexts: An Overview of Self-Determination Theory
  107. The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation
  108. Through a Fly's Eye: Multiple Yet Overlapping Perspectives on Future Directions for Human Motivation Research
  109. Index of Autonomous Functioning Scale
  110. Beyond illusions and defense: Exploring the possibilities and limits of human autonomy and responsibility through self-determination theory.
  111. Exercise, physical activity, and self-determination theory: A systematic review
  112. Parental autonomy support and discrepancies between implicit and explicit sexual identities: Dynamics of self-acceptance and defense.
  113. Self-determination theory in health care and its relations to motivational interviewing: a few comments
  114. The Ideal Self at Play
  115. Out of the armchair and into the streets: Measuring mindfulness advances knowledge and improves interventions: Reply to Grossman (2011).
  116. Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Translation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)
  117. The Smoker's Health Project: A self-determination theory intervention to facilitate maintenance of tobacco abstinence
  118. Self-Determination Theory and Diminished Functioning
  119. Is Coming Out Always a “Good Thing”? Exploring the Relations of Autonomy Support, Outness, and Wellness for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
  120. Levels of Analysis, Regnant Causes of Behavior and Well-Being: The Role of Psychological Needs
  121. Psychological Need Thwarting in the Sport Context: Assessing the Darker Side of Athletic Experience
  122. A self-determination theory approach to understanding stress incursion and responses
  123. Motivational determinants of integrating positive and negative past identities.
  124. Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Translation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)
  125. Autonomy as Process and Outcome: Revisiting Cultural and Practical Issues in Motivation for Counseling
  126. A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Social, Institutional, Cultural, and Economic Supports for Autonomy and Their Importance for Well-Being
  127. Introduction: The Struggle for Happiness and Autonomy in Cultural and Personal Contexts: An Overview
  128. Positive Psychology and Self-Determination Theory: A Natural Interface
  129. Attributing autonomous versus introjected motivation to helpers and the recipient experience: Effects on gratitude, attitudes, and well-being
  130. Autonomy and Control in Dyads: Effects on Interaction Quality and Joint Creative Performance
  131. A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement
  132. Vitalizing effects of being outdoors and in nature
  133. Motivation and emotion and the society for the study of motivation: A joint venture
  134. The energization of health-behavior change: Examining the associations among autonomous self-regulation, subjective vitality, depressive symptoms, and tobacco abstinence
  135. Motivation and Autonomy in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Behavior Change: A Look at Theory and Practice 1ψ7
  136. When helping helps: Autonomous motivation for prosocial behavior and its influence on well-being for the helper and recipient.
  137. Being present in the face of existential threat: The role of trait mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to mortality salience.
  138. Mediating between the muse and the masses: Inspiration and the actualization of creative ideas.
  139. Weekends, Work, and Well-Being: Psychological Need Satisfactions and Day of the Week Effects on Mood, Vitality, and Physical Symptoms
  140. Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives
  141. When what one has is enough: Mindfulness, financial desire discrepancy, and subjective well-being
  142. Having to versus Wanting to Play: Background and Consequences of Harmonious versus Obsessive Engagement in Video Games
  143. Can Nature Make Us More Caring? Effects of Immersion in Nature on Intrinsic Aspirations and Generosity
  144. On being yourself in different cultures: ideal and actual self-concept, autonomy support, and well-being in China, Russia, and the United States
  145. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness in the classroom
  146. Self-determination theory in schools of education
  147. Undermining quality teaching and learning
  148. The path taken: Consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life
  149. A multi-method examination of the effects of mindfulness on stress attribution, coping, and emotional well-being
  150. Wellness as healthy functioning or wellness as happiness: the importance of eudaimonic thinking (response to the Kashdan et al. and Waterman discussion)
  151. The Importance of Supporting Autonomy and Perceived Competence in Facilitating Long-Term Tobacco Abstinence
  152. Aspiring to physical health: The role of aspirations for physical health in facilitating long-term tobacco abstinence
  153. The Motivating Role of Violence in Video Games
  154. Can self-determination theory explain what underlies the productive, satisfying learning experiences of collectivistically oriented Korean students?
  155. The emotional and academic consequences of parental conditional regard: Comparing conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support as parenting practices.
  156. A self-determination theory approach to psychotherapy: The motivational basis for effective change.
  157. Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life's domains.
  158. Self-determination theory: A macrotheory of human motivation, development, and health.
  159. What makes lessons interesting? The role of situational and individual factors in three school subjects.
  160. “Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains”: Correction to Deci and Ryan (2008).
  161. Why Identities Fluctuate: Variability in Traits as a Function of Situational Variations in Autonomy Support
  162. Addressing Fundamental Questions About Mindfulness
  163. Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects
  164. How Integrative is Attachment Theory? Unpacking the Meaning and Significance of Felt Security
  165. Erratum to “The antecedents and consequences of autonomous self-regulation for college: A self-determination theory perspective on socialization”
  166. Motivation and Emotion: A New Look and Approach for Two Reemerging Fields
  167. Psychology and American Corporate Capitalism: Further Reflections and Future Directions
  168. Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts
  169. Conceptualizing parental autonomy support: Adolescent perceptions of promotion of independence versus promotion of volitional functioning.
  170. A self-determination multiple risk intervention trial to improve smokers’ health
  171. Self-Regulation and the Problem of Human Autonomy: Does Psychology Need Choice, Self-Determination, and Will?
  172. The Motivational Pull of Video Games: A Self-Determination Theory Approach
  173. Hedonia, eudaimonia, and well-being: an introduction
  174. Social pressure, coercion, and client engagement at treatment entry: A self-determination theory perspective
  175. The antecedents and consequences of autonomous self-regulation for college: A self-determination theory perspective on socialization
  176. Living well: a self-determination theory perspective on eudaimonia
  177. Choice and Ego-Depletion: The Moderating Role of Autonomy
  178. A Special Issue on Approach and Avoidance Motivation
  179. Self-Determination Theory and Public Policy: Improving the Quality of Consumer Decisions without using Coercion
  180. On the Benefits of Giving as Well as Receiving Autonomy Support: Mutuality in Close Friendships
  181. Testing a self-determination theory intervention for motivating tobacco cessation: Supporting autonomy and competence in a clinical trial.
  182. Validation of the "Important Other" Climate Questionnaire: Assessing Autonomy Support for Health-Related Change.
  183. The developmental line of autonomy in the etiology, dynamics, and treatment of borderline personality disorders
  184. Motivational Interviewing and Self–Determination Theory
  185. Psychological Needs and Threat to Safety: Implications for Staff and Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital for Youth.
  186. Cultural Context and Psychological Needs in Canada and Brazil
  187. Self-determination theory and work motivation
  188. On the interpersonal regulation of emotions: Emotional reliance across gender, relationships, and cultures
  189. The Structure of Goal Contents Across 15 Cultures.
  190. Intrinsic Need Satisfaction: A Motivational Basis of Performance and Weil-Being in Two Work Settings1
  191. Motivation, Autonomy Support, and Entity Beliefs: Their Role in Methadone Maintenance Treatment
  192. The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue It
  193. Self-Concordance and Subjective Well-Being in Four Cultures
  194. Autonomy and Competence in German and American University Students: A Comparative Study Based on Self-Determination Theory.
  195. Avoiding Death or Engaging Life as Accounts of Meaning and Culture: Comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004).
  196. Autonomy Support and Need Satisfaction in the Motivation and Well-Being of Gymnasts
  197. Differentiating autonomy from individualism and independence: A self-determination theory perspective on internalization of cultural orientations and well-being.
  198. Interpersonal relatedness, self-definition, and their motivational orientation during adolescence: A theorical and empirical integration.
  199. The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being.
  200. Self-determination, smoking, diet and health
  201. Parent and Teacher Autonomy-Support in Russian and U.S. Adolescents
  202. Need Satisfaction, Motivation, and Well-Being in the Work Organizations of a Former Eastern Bloc Country: A Cross-Cultural Study of Self-Determination
  203. Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation in Education: Reconsidered Once Again
  204. The Pervasive Negative Effects of Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation: Response to
  205. On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
  206. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
  207. Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness
  208. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions
  209. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
  210. Within-person variation in security of attachment: A self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-being.
  211. The American Dream in Russia: Extrinsic Aspirations and Well-Being in Two Cultures
  212. The importance of self-determination theory for medical education
  213. Revitalization through Self-Regulation: The Effects of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation on Happiness and Vitality
  214. The Relation of Psychological Needs for Autonomy and Relatedness to Vitality, Well-Being, and Mortality in a Nursing Home1
  215. A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation.
  216. Absidia corymbiferaInfections in Neonates
  217. Autonomous regulation and long-term medication adherence in adult outpatients.
  218. On Energy, Personality, and Health: Subjective Vitality as a Dynamic Reflection of Well-Being
  219. Trait self and true self: Cross-role variation in the Big-Five personality traits and its relations with psychological authenticity and subjective well-being.
  220. What Makes for a Good Day? Competence and Autonomy in the Day and in the Person
  221. Further Examining the American Dream: Differential Correlates of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals
  222. Motivational predictors of weight loss and weight-loss maintenance.
  223. Need satisfaction and the self-regulation of learning
  224. Psychological Needs and the Facilitation of Integrative Processes
  225. Initial motivations for alcohol treatment: Relations with patient characteristics, treatment involvement, and dropout
  226. The Imaginary Audience, Self-Consciousness, and Public Individuation in Adolescence
  227. Representations of Relationships to Teachers, Parents, and Friends as Predictors of Academic Motivation and Self-Esteem
  228. Promoting Self‐determined Education
  229. The development of emotional and behavioral self-regulation and social competence among maltreated school-age children
  230. Employee and Supervisor Ratings of Motivation: Main Effects and Discrepancies Associated with Job Satisfaction and Adjustment in a Factory Setting1
  231. A dark side of the American dream: Correlates of financial success as a central life aspiration.
  232. Two types of religious internalization and their relations to religious orientations and mental health.
  233. Beyond the intrinsic-extrinsic dichotomy: Self-determination in motivation and learning
  234. Inner resources for school achievement: Motivational mediators of children's perceptions of their parents.
  235. Autonomy and Relatedness as Fundamental to Motivation and Education
  236. Ego-involved persistence: When free-choice behavior is not intrinsically motivated
  237. "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Smoking in Connecticut" and Elsewhere
  238. Motivation and Education: The Self-Determination Perspective
  239. Motivation and Education: The Self-Determination Perspective
  240. Self-Perceptions, Motivation, and Adjustment in Children with Learning Disabilities
  241. Emotions in nondirected text learning
  242. Menstrual cycle abnormalities and subclinical eating disorders: a preliminary report.
  243. Parent styles associated with children's self-regulation and competence in school.
  244. Perceived locus of causality and internalization: Examining reasons for acting in two domains.
  245. Self-determination in a work organization.
  246. Object Relations and Ego Development: Comparison and Correlates In Middle Childhood
  247. Cognitive dysfunction in eating disorders
  248. Autonomy in children's learning: An experimental and individual difference investigation.
  249. Origins and pawns in the classroom: Self-report and projective assessments of individual differences in children's perceptions.
  250. Intrinsic motivation and the effects of self-consciousness, self-awareness, and ego-involvement: An investigation of internally controlling styles
  251. The general causality orientations scale: Self-determination in personality
  252. A Rorschach Assessment of Children's Mutuality of Autonomy
  253. Conceptualizations of Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination
  254. Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior
  255. The “third selective paradigm” and the role of human motivation in cultural and biological selection: A response to Csikszentmihalyi and Massimini
  256. Toward an Organismic Integration Theory
  257. Setting limits on children's behavior: The differential effects of controlling vs. informational styles on intrinsic motivation and creativity
  258. Relation of reward contingency and interpersonal context to intrinsic motivation: A review and test using cognitive evaluation theory.
  259. Intrinsic motivation to teach: Possibilities and obstacles in our colleges and universities
  260. Control and information in the intrapersonal sphere: An extension of cognitive evaluation theory.
  261. Effect of methylphenidate on young adults' vigilance and event-related potentials
  262. An instrument to assess adults' orientations toward control versus autonomy with children: Reflections on intrinsic motivation and perceived competence.
  263. Heart Rate, Contingent Negative Variation, and Evoked Potentials during Anticipation of Affective Stimulation
  264. The Empirical Exploration of Intrinsic Motivational Processes
  265. Self-Determination Theory
  266. Self-Determination Theory and the Relation of Autonomy to Self-Regulatory Processes and Personality Development
  267. Basic psychological needs: a self-determination theory perspective on the promotion of wellness across development and cultures
  268. Motivation and Classroom Management
  269. The Importance of Autonomy for Development and Well-Being
  270. Toward a Social Psychology of Assimilation: Self-Determination Theory in Cognitive Development and Education
  271. Self-Determination Theory Applied to Work Motivation and Organizational Behavior