Motivational synchronicity: Priming motivational orientations with observations of others' behaviors

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-38

  Friedman, Ron ^a   Deci, Edward L ^a   Elliot, Andrew J ^a   Moller, Arlen C ^a,c   Aarts, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrinsic motivation; Motivational orientations; Priming; Synchronicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949914401     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-009-9151-3     Document Type: Article

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