Academic Motivation Lab

Department of Psychology

Selected Papers

Reed students in bold

Kim, M., & Corpus, C. (2023). Self-efficacy buffers against belonging loss for Hispanic students during the first semester of college. European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 6(2), 69-76. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejper.6.2.69

Wu, S. H., & Corpus, J. H. (2023). The role of perceived cost in college students’ motivational experiences and long-term achievement outcomes: A mixed-methods approach. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 4, Article 100229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2023.100229

Greenwald, D. G., Shan, L., Boldt, T. A., Truong, B. B., Gonzalez, G. S., Chen, C. H., & Corpus, J. H. (2023). Comparing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in bilingual children and their monolingual peers. Frontiers in Education, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1022729

Corpus, J. H., Robinson, K. A., & Liu, X. (2022). Comparing college students’ motivation trajectories before and during COVID-19: A Self-Determination Theory approach.  Frontiers in Education, 7:848643. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.848643

Corpus, J. H., & Good, K. A. (2021). The effects of praise on children’s intrinsic motivation revisited. In Brummelman, E. (Ed.), Psychological Perspectives on Praise (pp. 39-46). Abington, UK: Routledge.

Corpus, J. H., Robinson, K. A., & Wormington, S. V. (2020). Trajectories of motivation and their academic correlates over the first year of college. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 63.

Appelbaum, M. S., & Corpus, J. H. (2020). Assessing competing and combining motives to learn in college students: A Self-Determination Theory approach. Future Review: International Journal of Transition, College, and Career Success, 2, 15-28.

Corpus, J. H., Wormington, S. V. & Haimovitz, K. (2016). Creating rich portraits: A mixed methods approach to understanding profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. The Elementary School Journal, 116, 365-390.

Corpus, J. H., & Wormington, S. V. (2014). Profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in elementary school: A longitudinal analysis. The Journal of Experimental Education, 82, 480-501.

Berg, D. A. & Corpus, J. H. (2013). Enthusiastic students: A study of motivation in two alternatives to mandatory instruction. Other Education, 2, 42-66.

McClintic-Gilbert, M. S., Corpus, J. H., Wormington, S. V., & Haimovitz, K. (2013). The relationships among middle school students’ motivational orientations, learning strategies, and academic achievement. Middle Grades Research Journal, 8, 1-12.

Wormington, S. V., Corpus, J. H., & Anderson, K. A. (2012). A person-centered investigation of academic motivation and its correlates in high school. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 429-438.

Haimovitz, K., Wormington, S. V., & Corpus, J. H. (2011). Dangerous mindsets: How beliefs about intelligence predict motivational change. Learning and Individual Differences, 21, 747-752.

Haimovitz, K., & Corpus, J. H. (2011). Effects of person versus process praise on student motivation: Stability and change in emerging adulthood. Educational Psychology, 31, 595-609.

Hayenga, A. O., & Corpus, J. H. (2010). Profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: A person-centered approach to motivation and achievement in middle school. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 371-383.

Corpus, J. H., McClintic-Gilbert, M. S., & Hayenga, A. O. (2009). Within-year changes in children’s intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations: Contextual predictors and academic outcomes. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 34, 154-166.

Corpus, J. H., & Lepper, M. R. (2007). The effects of person versus performance praise on children’s motivation: Gender and age as moderating factors. Educational Psychology, 27, 487-508.

Corpus, J. H., Ogle, C. M., & Love-Geiger, K. E. (2006). The effects of social-comparison versus mastery praise on children’s intrinsic motivation. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 335-345.

Lepper, M. R., Corpus, J. H., & Iyengar. S. S. (2005). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations in the classroom: Age differences and academic correlates. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97, 184-196.

Henderlong, J., & Lepper, M. R. (2002). The effects of praise on children’s intrinsic motivation: A review and synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 774-795.