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The 37 pages that link to Motivation, each with the reason it gives.

• EmotionRelated: Emotions can energize action, alter priorities, or interrupt ongoing goals.

• CharacterizationRelated: A character’s motives help explain behavior and distinguish stated aims from deeper needs.

• Psychological realismRelated: Credible motives connect characters’ inner states to their observable behavior.

• Self-efficacyNarrower topic: Self-efficacy is one influence on motivation, affecting effort and persistence rather than determining them alone.

• AltruismNarrower topic: Whether an act counts as altruistic can depend on the motive attributed to it.

• LatencyRelated: Latency includes renewing the motivation that keeps members participating.

• Reward systemNarrower topic: Reward-related signals help energize and direct goal pursuit.

• Intrinsic motivationNarrower topic: Intrinsic motivation is one form within the broader study of motivated action.

• Learned helplessnessNarrower topic: Reduced action is one outcome that broader theories of motivation seek to explain.

• DesireRelated: Desire supplies a felt incentive that can initiate and direct goal pursuit.

• LeadershipRelated: A leader's influence can strengthen people's willingness to contribute.

• PedagogyRelated: Learner engagement affects whether teaching efforts lead to sustained study.

• Self-regulationRelated: Motivation affects whether a person invests effort in regulating behavior.

• PersonalityRelated: Motives help explain why similar traits lead people toward different goals.

• Organizational behaviorRelated: Motivation theories explain effort, persistence, and goal pursuit at work.

• MoodCompared with: Motivation concerns action and goals, while mood is an affective condition.

• Psychological FictionRelated: Competing motives often generate its central conflicts.

• Self-regulated learningNarrower topic: Motivational beliefs and values affect whether learners begin, persist, or change course.

• Abraham MaslowNarrower topic: Maslow’s hierarchy is one influential account of how needs shape human motivation.

• IncentiveRelated: Incentives can supply external reasons to act alongside internal motives.

• Self-ActualizationNarrower topic: Self-actualization is framed as a growth motive rather than merely a response to deprivation.

• Maslow's hierarchy of needsNarrower topic: The hierarchy proposes an ordering of human motives.

• TeacherRelated: Motivation influences whether learners begin, persist in, and value study.

• AndragogyRelated: Andragogy distinguishes adults’ internal interests and goals from external pressures as learning drivers.

• Management (business)Related: Understanding motivation helps explain effort, persistence, and workplace performance.

• Personal developmentRelated: Motivation helps explain why intentions become action—or fade before habits form.

• PleasureRelated: Pleasure can reinforce action, but motivation also depends on needs and expectations.

• ERG theoryNarrower topic: ERG theory is one account of what directs and sustains human effort.

• Expectancy theoryNarrower topic: Expectancy theory is one account of how motivation arises.

• Human behaviorRelated: Motives help explain why people choose one action over another.

• MoraleNarrower topic: Morale can support motivation, but motivation also arises from incentives and individual needs.

• Energy (everyday usage)Related: Willingness to act can shape whether available capacity feels like usable energy.

• Behavior and Behavior MechanismsRelated: Motivational states help determine which actions occur and when.

• Consumer behaviourRelated: Needs and goals supply the impetus behind many purchasing decisions.

• Media psychologyRelated: Motives help explain why people select particular media and persist in using them.

• Neal E. MillerNarrower topic: His studies treated motivation as a measurable influence on learning and choice.

• PsychodynamicsNarrower topic: Psychodynamics treats behavior as driven by motives that may not be consciously recognized.