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The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology describes motivation as an ‘extremely important but definitionally elusive term’ (Reber, 1985). Having attempted a definition of the term myself I can assure you that this is no cop-out. What I finally decided on was the following (Staff, 1990).
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© 1994 David A. Statt
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Statt, D.A. (1994). Motivation. In: Psychology and the World of Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23652-7_13
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