Advances in Motivation Science

Andrew J. Elliot is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. His research areas include achievement motivation, approach-avoidance motivation, the development of motivation and self-regulation, and subtle cue and context effects on psychological functioning. He has been (or currently is) an Associate Editor at Emotion, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Science, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and has edited two handbooks: Handbook of competence and motivation (with Carol Dweck) and Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. He has over 170 scholarly publications, has received research grants from public and private agencies, and has been awarded multiple awards for his research contributions.

1. The Relentless Pursuit of Acceptance and Belonging Mark R. Leary and Shira Gabriel 2. Reward uncertainty and the aversion-attraction dilemma Patrick Anselme 3. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Selectivity in Motivated Memory Kimberly S. Chiew and Holly J. Bowen 4. Accounting for long-term motivation and sustained motivated learning: Motivational currents, self-concordant vision, and persistence in language learning Zoltán Dörnyei and Alastair Henry 5. Interest: A Unique Affective and Cognitive Motivational Variable That Develops K. Ann Renninger and Suzanne Hidi 6. Neural systems for aversively motivated behavior Jamil Palacios Bhanji, Yun-Yen Yang, and Mauricio R. Delgado