Motivation Science is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation, broadly conceived.
The journal publishes papers on diverse aspects of and approaches to the science of motivation, including work carried out in all subfields of psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, management science, organizational science, neuroscience, and political science.
Primarily, Motivation Science features empirical papers on motivational topics, although theoretical papers and reviews of the literature will also be considered.
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