Richard M. Ryan, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. He is an award-winning speaker and researcher, with over 450 published articles and books. Ryan is a co-founder of Self-Determination Theory, an internationally researched theory of personality development and motivation that has been applied to areas as management, education, parenting, health care, sport, video games, psychotherapy.
Self-determination theory (SDT) provides a framework for understanding the factors that promote motivation and healthy psychological and behavioral functi...
If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of motivation?...
Over the past twenty years an increasing number of researchers from various universities have been investigating motivational issues underlying the self-r...
The present study used multilevel modeling and measures of the Big Five to test Rogers?...
Interest in mindfulness and its enhancement has burgeoned in recent years....
Kashdan Biswas-Diener and King (2008) debated with Waterman (2008) the value of eudaimonic perspectives in ...
Abstract: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of the techniques used to promote psychological need satisfaction ...
About Richard Ryan, PhD
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation that evolved from research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and expanded to in...
Self-determination theory (SDT), developed by psychologists Ed Deci and Rich Ryan at the University of Rochester over the past 25 years, is now the most r...
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