Recent Advances in SDT [
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Paper Session 1 - Intrinsic Motivation
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Professor and Administrator of the SL Endorsement Program, University of Nebraska Kearney
My current interests are intrinsic motivation for information seeking (and how educators can foster it in students), school librarianship, and storytelling. I am also interested in the multicultural aspects of each.
Assistant Professor, Korea National University Of Education
Thursday June 2, 2016 14:15 - 15:20 PDT
View Royal
14:15 PDT
Paper Session 3 - Personal Goals and Self-Concordance
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Assistant Professor, Carleton University
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University Of Applied Sciences And Arts Northwestern Switzerland
VP & Consultant, Northcentral University
Nutrition and weight loss consulting, eating psychology consulting, fitness and physique sports psychology, emotional agility and mind-body integration
Thursday June 2, 2016 14:15 - 15:20 PDT
Colwood
14:15 PDT
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Advances in Self-Determination Theory
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Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan
I am interested in developing alternative methodologies to advance research on motivation. One of the approaches is realist interviewing; my colleague Jade Anderson and I will talk about it on Friday. I also interested in understanding the dynamics between culture and human autonomy...
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SDT Co-Founder, Author, and Professor at the University of Rochester
SDT Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education, Australian Catholic University
08:30 PDT
Paper Session 6 - Is Autonomy Support Beneficial to All?
Speakers MJ
University of Montreal
Mireille Joussemet received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2004 from McGill University, where she conducted research in human motivation with Prof. Richard Koestner, guided by her passion for children’s motivation, well-being and their social determinants. During her post-doctoral...
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
08:30 PDT
Paper Session 8 - Choice and Decision Making
Moderators DP
University of Quebec in the Outaouais
Senior Lecturer, University Of New South Wales
Hi! I'm interested in SDT as it relates to educational settings, particularly music.
Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Motivation for Physical activity in young people and adults. Goal content in exercise. Embedding SDT in health interventions and evaluating theoretical fidelity
Friday June 3, 2016 08:30 - 09:35 PDT
Colwood
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Self-Determination and Unconscious Openness
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Professor, Skidmore College
My research has coalesced around issues related to openness to experience, as contrasted with defensiveness to experience. I use paradigms from experimental social psychology to investigate the predictors and consequences of the tendency to experience internal and external events...
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Paper Session 13 - Creative Ways of School Engagement
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Teacher, New Milford High School
My research focuses on school climate factors supportive of teachers’ creativity. Removing obstacles and boosting creativity stimulants leads to either "virtuous" or "vicious cycles" of creativity growth in different school climates. The componential theory of creativity and systems...
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Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
I have conducted extensive research on the optimal experience in physical activity settings. As an educator, I have been most interested in how practitioners (e.g., educators and coaches) can assist others in engaging constructively so that they can lead flourishing lives. I have...
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Friday June 3, 2016 11:10 - 12:15 PDT
Colwood
14:15 PDT
Paper Session 16 - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals and Values
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Swinburne University Of Technology
I'm always wondering about why people do what they do, and how research can help us do more of the 'right' things in the 'right' way. My research generally focusses on thinking styles and the way people look at the world, and how this informs their goals, motivation, and subsequent...
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Associate Professor, Kyungpook National University
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Salzburg
Friday June 3, 2016 14:15 - 15:20 PDT
Sidney
14:15 PDT
Paper Session 17 - Language and Literacy
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Professor, University of Alberta
My research interests rest at the intersection of educational, cultural and social psychology, applied and sociolinguistics, and communication science, particularly as these disciplines pertain to intercultural relations and communication. One of my main lines of research concerns...
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Laval University
Frédéric Guay is a Professor of Counseling Psychology and Education at Laval University as well as the Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Motivation, Persistence and Academic Success. He holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Quebec at Montreal and was...
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Friday June 3, 2016 14:15 - 15:20 PDT
Colwood
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Paper Session 19 - Motivation and Learning
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Professor, Korea University
We design, implement, and evaluate autonomy-supportive interventions for teachers. We seek to discover the benefits (for students, for teachers) when teachers learn how to become more autonomy supportive and less controlling during instruction. We also focus on students--often on...
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Assistant Director, SoTL, Purdue University, IN, USA
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National Institute Of Education, Nanyang Technological University
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Paper Session 23 - Relatedness and Intimacy
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Université de Montréal
Genevieve A. Mageau studies autonomy support within hierarchical relationships, with a focus on parenting. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Quebec at Montreal, where she conducted motivational research with Prof. Robert J. Vallerand. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship...
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Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
15:40 PDT
Paper Session 24 - Motivation to Learn a Second or Foreign Language
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Professor, University of Alberta
My research interests rest at the intersection of educational, cultural and social psychology, applied and sociolinguistics, and communication science, particularly as these disciplines pertain to intercultural relations and communication. One of my main lines of research concerns...
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Fukuoka University Of Education
Friday June 3, 2016 15:40 - 16:45 PDT
Colwood
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Paper Session 41 - Motivation and Personality
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Professor, University
methods, statistics, problem solving
CL
The Hong Kong Institute Of Education
BS
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
JR
Colorado State University, College Of Business
Sunday June 5, 2016 09:20 - 10:50 PDT
Sidney
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Paper Session 43 - Recent Advances in the Study of Psychological Needs
Speakers DL
National Research University Higher School Of Economics, Moscow
Aalto University
What makes life good? How to live? How to make sure that as many as possible can live a meaningful life? Frank is a philosopher and researcher of psychology working as an assistant professor at Aalto University, Finland, dedicated to finding better answers to these question.
09:20 PDT
Paper Session 44 - Materialism and External Rewards
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Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
I'm interested things related to SDT, social and health psychology. Specific topics of recent interest include: financial incentives and the undermining effect, increasing physical activity, long term maintenance of health behavior changes, and just recently, community-police rel...
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Associate Professor, Aarhus University
I teach SDT in the Master of Positive Psychology program at an Aarhus University campus in Copenhagen. I train corporate clients to do facilitated knowledge sharing based on SDT principles. I am a board member of a monetary reform group in Denmark, Gode Penge, that works for a reform...
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Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Business School
Assistant Professor and Director of the Graduate Diploma on Organizational Happiness (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile). PhD Economic Psychology and MSc Applied Social Psychology (University of Sussex, U.K.). BA Business and Economics (PUC, Chile); Commercial Engineering (PUC, Chile...
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The Specificity Hypothesis : Evidence, implications and perspectives
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Senior Lecturer, University of Geneva
My domains of research are education and health-related physical activity. In education, advanced statistical methods allow me studying the differentiation of motivation across academic subjects in an innovative developmental perspective. Concerning physical activity, individual motivational...
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Q & A with Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan
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SDT Co-Founder, Author, and Professor at the University of Rochester
SDT Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education, Australian Catholic University
