People have intrinsic motivators (the level of enjoyment of the activities related to the goal). Research suggests that extrinsic motivation influences adoption of a goal. Research also suggests that ...

There is a seemingly endless amount of research on how to set and accomplish goals — visualize, loop in friends, record milestones. Do all this and, in theory, you'll improve your life. Some goals ...

How did the political party associated with stability and preservation become so interested in tearing down established ...

You know that feeling when you set a goal with all the best intentions, follow some generic advice about making it SMART, and then... nothing? You're not broken, and you're definitely not lazy. The ...

In a highly novel study published in Current Biology, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, describe how two major neuronal ...

Two-thirds of Americans either met or exceeded their 2024 travel goals, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 US adults who have traveled within the past year revealed that while 43% traveled ...

Approach-oriented goals involve reaching or maintaining desired outcomes. Avoidance goals focus on avoiding or eliminating undesired outcomes. Although both types of goals are common in our lives and ...