Advances in Motivation Science

Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Seven, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as Moving from Research on Message Framing to Principles of Message Matching: The Use of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages to Promote Healthy Behavior, 35 Years of Research on Students’ Subjective Task Values and Motivation: A Look Back and a Look Forward, The Motivational Potency of Nostalgia: The Future is Called Yesterday, Adaptive Self-Regulation, Subjective Well-Being, and Physical Health: The Importance of Goal Adjustment Capacities, and much more.

Presents new research in the field of motivation science and researchProvides a timely overview of important research programs conducted by the most respected scholars in psychologyGives special attention to directions for future research

1. Metamotivation: Emerging research on the regulation of motivational states
David B. Miele, Abigail A. Scholer and Kentaro Fujita
2. Moving from research on message framing to principles of message matching: The use of gain- and loss-framed messages to promote healthy behavior
Alexander J. Rothman, Keven-Joyal Desmarais and Richie L. Lenne
3. The motivational potency of nostalgia: The future is called yesterday
Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut
4. A development-in-sociocultural-context perspective on the multiple pathways to youth’s engagement in learning
Ming-Te Wang, Daphne A. Henry and Jessica L. Degol
5. 35 years of research on students' subjective task values and motivation: A look back and a look forward
Allan Wigfield and Jacquelynne S. Eccles
6. Adaptive self-regulation, subjective well-being, and physical health: The importance of goal adjustment capacities
Carsten Wrosch and Michael F. Scheier