A general framework is presented to help understand the relationship between motivation and self-regulated learning. According to the framework, self-regulated learning can be facilitated by the adoption of mastery and relative ability goals and hindered by the adoption of extrinsic goals. In addition, positive self-e$cacy and task value beliefs can promote selfregulated behavior. Self-regulate...

Collective movement of animals (e.g., birds, fish, insects, ungulates, etc.) has attracted scientists’ attention for over 2000 years. More recently, researchers started investigating also the collective movement of cells during development or disease (e.g., cancer). In this talk we discuss a class of nonlocal hyperbolic models for interactions between animals and interactions between cells. The...

People engage in eating behavior as a matter of survival, normally every day. That is, one has to make choices about what to eat, when, and how much. In contrast to our ancestors, however, whose primary task was to seek out any food that would provide energy and nutrients, those choices have become more difficult nowadays. In western or westernized societies in particular, food is abundant, che...

Relatively little longitudinal research has been conducted on the development of children’s emotional self-regulation skills (SRS) use after infancy, particularly for children at high risk for problems in regulating emotions. The current study attempted to validate Kopp’s theory (1989) on the development of children’s regulation of negative emotions during the first few years of life. This stud...

Revenge is the natural human response to interpersonal transgressions. However, given the benefits of forgiveness, it is important to consider how forgiveness can be facilitated. Many factors have been shown to be associated with forgiveness, ranging from situational factors (e.g., perception of the transgression) to dispositional factors (e.g., personality traits). This study aims to extend re...

Professional and expert work holds the potential for misconduct that can harm clients or the public. According to the traditional model of professional self-regulation, developed during the “golden age” of the professions in the mid-20th century, societies grant professional communities freedom from external regulation in return for their commitment to regulate their members’ conduct. Professio...

An experiment explored the hypothesis that inhibitory ability helps people stop themselves from engaging in socially inappropriate behavior. All participants completed a Stroop color-naming task, after which half of the participants were asked to remember an eight-digit number (inducing divided attention). Participants were then offered an unfamiliar and visually unappetizing food product (a ch...

Effective use of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies may be particularly important for students participating in online education (Schunk & Zimmerman, 1998). The objective of this study was to investigate how different motivational components of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986) relate to students' use of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies in online courses. University s...

Social psychological research is increasingly coming to grips with the complexity of social identity within the individual, both from the perspective of perceivers trying to form impressions and make judgments about multiply categorizable targets, as well as from the perspective of actors using their different self-aspects as a framework for guiding their interactions with the social world. I r...

According to Bandura’s social cognitive theory, self-efficacy and self-regulation are key processes that affect students’ learning and achievement. This article discusses students’ reading and writing performances using Zimmerman’s four -phase social cognitive model of the development of self-regulatory competence. Modeling is an effective means of building self-regulatory and academic skills a...