People believe that they know who they are and that who they are matters for what they do. These core beliefs seem so inherent to conceptualizations of what it means to have a self as to require no empirical support. After all, what is the point of a concept of self if there is no stable thing to have a concept about, and who would care if that concept was stable if it was not useful in making ...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of self-fulfilling prophecy on the motivation and performance of national iranian gas company staffs. in this study, considering the importance of peoples’ perception and its role in motivation and consequently their performance in organization, we have tried to investigate the influence of one of these perceptual factors by using the correlat...

the purpose followed in this study was to investigate the attitude of the students of the higher level education institutions towards learning motivations. a descriptive-correlational method was chosen for the study. a number of 120 students were randomly selected as the study sample out of 1339 students and finally 112 questionnaires were collected. the instrument was assessed for face and con...

The present study examined the relationship between willingness to communicate (WTC) and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation among Iranian intermediate learners of English. It also attempted to identify the motivational orientations which best predicted learners’ WTC. Moreover, it measured Iranian intermediate learners’ willingness to read (WTR), willingness to listen (WTL), and willingness to write...