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Dr. Edward L. Ayers – Faculty Author Podcast
No full textDr. Edward L. Ayers, University Professor and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond, discusses his new book, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America, published recently by W.W. Norton. The book conveys the final years of the Civil War in the Great Valley between the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains by focusing on average, resilient people trying to survive the devastation around them
Edward. L. Deci: Un pionero en el estudio de la motivación humana
No full textLas causas que nos llevan a realizar una acción en vez de otra han sido estudio de la psicología de la motivación ¿Qué inicia, dirige, mantiene y detiene nuestra conducta? Son preguntas a las que numerosos investigadores han pretendido responder a lo largo de la historia. En este grupo de mordaces y agudos autores como Hall, McClelland, Atkinson, Bandura, Weiner, Maslow, Nuttin, Huertas, Ellis, Bruner, Dweck, etc., encontramos la figura de Edward. L. Deci, quien ha contribuido a explicar la conducta que promueve las aspiraciones humanas en diferentes campos del conocimiento. Su trabajo ha documentado que aprendemos más y mejor, recordamos durante más tiempo, estamos más interesados en lo que hacemos y más satisfechos cuando actuamos intrínsecamente, es decir, cuando nuestra conducta refleja algo que es propio de nosotros. La trascendencia de sus aportaciones reside en que pueden ser utilizadas cada día para ser más efectivo y estar más satisfecho con la vida y el trabajo
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How self-determined choice facilitates performance: a key role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
No full textRecent studies have documented that self-determined choice does indeed enhance performance. However, the precise neural mechanisms underlying this effect are not well understood. We examined the neural correlates of the facilitative effects of self-determined choice using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants played a game-like task involving a stopwatch with either a stopwatch they selected (self-determined-choice condition) or one they were assigned without choice (forced-choice condition). Our results showed that self-determined choice enhanced performance on the stopwatch task, despite the fact that the choices were clearly irrelevant to task difficulty. Neuroimaging results showed that failure feedback, compared with success feedback, elicited a drop in the vmPFC activation in the forced-choice condition, but not in the self-determined-choice condition, indicating that negative reward value associated with the failure feedback vanished in the self-determined-choice condition. Moreover, the vmPFC resilience to failure in the self-determined-choice condition was significantly correlated with the increased performance. Striatal responses to failure and success feedback were not modulated by the choice condition, indicating the dissociation between the vmPFC and striatal activation pattern. These findings suggest that the vmPFC plays a unique and critical role in the facilitative effects of self-determined choice on performance
Virginia L. Jones and Edward A. Jones, circa 1970
No full textVirginia L. Jones and Edward A. Jones shake hands with others.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of historic collections as part of the project: Our Story: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions.</em
Self-determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness
No full textSelf-determination theory (SDT) is one of the relatively recent (about two decades) theories ofmotivation and wellness. Propounded by Prof Edward Deci and Prof Richard Ryan, SDT focuseson volitional (doing things willingly) behavior and strategies to sustain this behavior in severalsetting – sports, education, health care, corporate, etc. Unlike earlier theories of motivation, whichfocused on how to control behavior through manipulating external contingencies (rewards andpunishments), SDT looks at the two forms of volitional behavior – intrinsic motivation (doingthings for the sheer pleasure and enjoyment) and internalization (doing things as we understandthe value of the outcome/activity). This paper gives an overview of the basic concepts of SDT andrecommends strategies, from the insights drawn from SDT to HR practitioners on how tomotivate theirworkforce employed in Indian software services sector
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[Oral History Interview with Edward Harris]
No full textInterview with Edward Harris, who was an activist and later became an author. Harris discusses his book "In the Shadow of Big Tex", growing up in Dallas with his family, his college experience at El Centro College, Bishop College, and Arlington State College (now UTA), getting drafted, his activism with SNCC and Grassroots Incorporated, being arrested and later committed for "hypersensitivity to racial discrimination", and other community programs he was involved in
Introducing the Recent development in input-output analysis
No full textThis is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Recent Development in Input-Output Analysis, edited by Erik Dietzenbacher, Michael L. Lahr, and Manfred Lenzen, published in 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786430816.
The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only
Comparative Effects of DL-Thyronine, L-Triiodothyronine and L-Thyroxine on the Isolated Perfused Frog Heart
No full text Page 63: Morris Kleinfeld, Albert Rosenthal and Edward Stein, "Comparative effects of dl-thyronine, l-triiodothyronine and l-thyroxine on the isolated perfused frog heart." The name of the second author should read Alvin S. Rosenthal. </jats:p
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