Jan 29, 2023
Please be advised that this episode contains mentions of violence and may be unsuitable for some listeners.
I'd like to flesh out what I've been saying before about the power of economic analysis in explaining people's actions.
Whereas when we normally think about motivation we think in terms of psychology, economists...
Jan 1, 2023
Education Bookcast released its first episode on the 1st of January 2016. I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about some of the big things that I think I've learned in that time. I speak about:
Nov 14, 2022
This is the second episode concerning self-related beliefs taken from chapters of The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning. Here I talk about self-efficacy, which concerns how much you believe that you can do something specific, e.g. solve a particular kind of maths problem.
Self-esteem, self-concept,...
Oct 31, 2022
Among the huge academic tomes that I've been ploughing through recently is The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning. I've long felt that my understanding of motivation is superficial and incomplete, and I wondered whether motivation was understood at all by anybody in the academic literature, or whether...
Oct 16, 2022
In this interview, I have the honour to speak with Professor Christian Lebiere, researcher in cognitive architecture, co-author of The Atomic Components of Thought, and one of the main developers of the ACT-R architecture. We talk on a range of topics relating to cognitive architecture, cognitive modelling,...