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Expectancy value theory's contribution to unpacking the black box of motivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2025

Jacquelynne S. Eccles  and
Allan Wigfield Open the ORCID record for Allan Wigfield [Opens in a new window]
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Affiliation:
School of Education, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA [email protected]
Allan Wigfield*
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA [email protected] Department of Education and Brain and Motivation Research Institute (bMRI), Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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*Corresponding author.
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Abstract

Although in basic agreement with Murayama and Jach's call for greater attention to the black boxes underlying motivated behavior, we provide examples of our published suggestions regarding how subjective task value (and ability self-concepts) “gets into people's knowledge structures.” We suggest additional mental computational processes to investigate and call for a developmental and situated individual differences approach to this work.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e32
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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