If we pride ourselves on being good students, losing motivation is what takes a toll on our mental health. We can’t study, so we feel bad about ourselves, which just makes it harder to study.

Motivation is a notoriously difficult thing to measure and study. The conclusions here are based on what students say on survey questionnaires. In the underlying studies, researchers weren’t able to ...

Your teen’s willingness to start studying works the same way. Bite-sized tasks are less threatening, and thus, more likely to ...

In a highly novel study published in Current Biology, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, describe how two major neuronal ...

Set incentives: Incentives are like “mini-goals” and increase motivation. However, they sometimes undermine the original goal (e.g., you study just for the incentive of eating chocolate).

The typical advice for finding motivation is to “keep your eyes on the prize,” to remind yourself of your ultimate goal. However, a recent study found that the secret to accomplishment may be ...

Discover six practical ways to build healthy study friendships. From sharing goals to celebrating wins, learn how to create ...

It accounts for about 75 percent of personal motivation toward accomplishment. – Dickinson 1999 So treat yourself whenever you complete something on your to-do list.