If you've ever seen a James Bond-style action film, you know the basic story line. An evil genius is planning world domination, from his secret lair, high in the mountains, deep under the ocean or ...

Employee motivation and performance are key factors in moving a small business forward. Owners, managers and supervisors know positive motivation leads to better performance and higher productivity ...

Intrinsic motivation, a concept drawn from behavioural science, has gained significant traction in robotic research as a means to stimulate exploratory behaviour in the absence of explicit external ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Motivating employees comes down to two methods: positive and negative reinforcement. Leaders either warn employees about punishments, ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in these reward-related processes is well-established, the cellular and neural ...

When it came to figuring out the basis for motivation, one of the field's earliest psychologists had it right. B.F. Skinner wasn’t the first psychologist to study the effect of rewards on behavior.