Multiple types of motives don't multiply the motivation of West Point cadets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 10990-10995

  Wrzesniewski, Amy ^a   Schwartz, Barry ^b   Cong, Xiangyu ^c   Kane, Michael ^c   Omar, Audrey ^c   Kolditz, Thomas ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding out; Overjustification effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); EMPLOYEE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LEADERSHIP; MEASUREMENT; MILITARY SERVICE; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOLOGY; SOLDIER; STUDY SKILLS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WELLBEING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

CROWDING OUT; OVERJUSTIFICATION EFFECT;

ADULT; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY, MILITARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84905037373     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405298111     Document Type: Article

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