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I am going to take the position of the loyal opposition. I maintain that the state of the art suggests to me that it is time that we stop studying achievement motivation. Like all other psychological variables, achievement motivation is a part of a whole—the whole is a person. It is time that we stopped studying variables and started studying persons in action. Let me explain with a crude analogy about the state of the art of psychology.
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deCharms, R. (1980). The Origins of Competence and Achievement Motivation in Personal Causation. In: Fyans, L.J. (eds) Achievement Motivation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-8997-3_3
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