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Motivating the academic mind: High-level construal of academic goals enhances goal meaningfulness, motivation, and self-concordance

Overview of attention for article published in Motivation and Emotion, December 2015
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Title
Motivating the academic mind: High-level construal of academic goals enhances goal meaningfulness, motivation, and self-concordance
Published in
Motivation and Emotion, December 2015
DOI 10.1007/s11031-015-9522-x
Authors

William E. Davis, Nicholas J. Kelley, Jinhyung Kim, David Tang, Joshua A. Hicks

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 125 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Student > Master 28 22%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Researcher 7 6%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 28 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 58 46%
Social Sciences 11 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 6%
Computer Science 3 2%
Philosophy 2 2%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 33 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2020.
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#6,838,548
of 23,906,448 outputs
Outputs from Motivation and Emotion
#380
of 792 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#104,368
of 395,646 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Motivation and Emotion
#5
of 14 outputs
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