Expressing Intrinsic Motivation Through Acts of Exploration and Facial Displays of Interest

摘要: Intrinsically-motivated behavior has been defined through participants' task persistence, during a free-choice interval. While fruitful, this operational definition assesses only the person's postperformance reaction to an activity. Presumably, people experience and express intrinsic motivation engagement as well. The need therefore exists for supplemental in-performance behavioral measure of motivation. To test viability constructing such measure, we recorded extent which five acts exploration four facial displays interest corresponded self-reports interest, self-determination, competence 60 undergraduates they solved SOMA puzzles. Correlational LISREL analyses confirmed validity three two We concluded that just persistence is valid indicator motivation, are indicators.