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 BelongingMark R. Leary and Shira Gabriel2. Reward uncertainty and the aversion-attraction dilemmaPatrick Anselme3. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Selectivity in Motivated MemoryKimberly S. Chiew and Holly J. Bowen4. Accounting for long-term motivation and sustained motivated learning: Motivational currents, self-concordant vision, and persistence in language learningZoltán Dörnyei and Alastair Henry5. Interest: A Unique Affective and Cognitive Motivational Variable That DevelopsK. Ann Renninger and Suzanne Hidi6. Neural systems for aversively motivated behaviorJamil Palacios Bhanji, Yun-Yen Yang, and Mauricio R. Delgado