Motivation

"Motivation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.

Descriptor ID	D009042
MeSH Number(s)	F01.658 F01.752.543.500.750
Concept/Terms	Motivation Motivation Disincentives Disincentives Disincentive Incentives Incentives Incentive

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Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
Motivation [F01.658]
Personality [F01.752]
Intelligence [F01.752.543]
Emotional Intelligence [F01.752.543.500]
Motivation [F01.752.543.500.750]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Motivation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Motivation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 394 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 32 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	2	3
1997	1	0	1
1999	0	2	2
2000	3	0	3
2002	3	1	4
2003	2	1	3
2004	2	6	8
2005	3	5	8
2006	6	2	8
2007	8	7	15
2008	11	12	23
2009	14	14	28
2010	11	13	24
2011	7	9	16
2012	6	9	15
2013	11	3	14
2014	16	16	32
2015	8	13	21
2016	12	8	20
2017	10	15	25
2018	9	12	21
2019	5	13	18
2020	9	16	25
2021	5	10	15
2022	3	9	12
2023	1	5	6
2024	11	5	16
2025	1	7	8

Below are the most recent publications written about "Motivation" by people in Profiles.

Taira DA, Tengan K, Takata J, Porter C, Ranken MS, Sentell TL, Seto TB. Exploring Diabetes Clinical Trial Participation: A Diverse Group Interview Study. Ther Innov Regul Sci. 2026 Jan; 60(1):172-181.

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Shaukat N, Chowdhury S, Roy S, Asfar T, Bursac Z, Maziak W. Waterpipe-specific pictorial health warning labels are effective in reducing subjective measures, behavioral responses and toxicant exposure among young adults: A crossover study. PLoS One. 2025; 20(8):e0327730.

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Weller SC, Pappadis MR, Krishnan S, Stearnes MR, Sheffield KM, Tan A, Qi JZ, Goodwin JS. Understanding motivations of older women to continue or discontinue breast cancer screening. PLoS One. 2025; 20(6):e0319141.

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Sheehan DM, Ram?rez-Ortiz D, Gwanzura T, Lewis PS, Ertl MM, Duncan DT, Swendeman D, Mu?oz-Laboy M, Devieux JG, Trepka MJ. Daily Factors Associated with Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Young Latino Sexual Minority Men with HIV: A 28-Day Daily Diary Study. AIDS Behav. 2025 Oct; 29(10):3054-3069.

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Garey L, Rinck M, Rosenfield D, Nizio P, Beevers CG, Brown RA, Conroy Busch HE, Dutcher CD, McSpadden B, Zvolensky MJ, Smits JAJ. Approach Bias and Tobacco Craving as Mechanisms of the Effect of Approach Bias Retraining on Smoking Cessation. Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Apr 22; 27(5):830-838.

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Amin S, Kawamoto CT, Pokhrel P. Exploring the ChatGPT platform with scenario-specific prompts for vaping cessation. Tob Control. 2025 Apr 01; 34(2):251-253.

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Davis Ewart L, Larson ME, Ghanooni D, Verhagen R, Manuel J, McCollister K, Fardone E, DeVries B, Dilworth S, Blackstock M, Doblecki-Lewis S, Nahum-Shani I, Grov C, Carrico AW. Getting to yes: Pilot sequential multiple assignment randomized trial of motivational enhancement interventions targeting preexposure prophylaxis use in sexual minority men who use stimulants. Health Psychol. 2025 Mar; 44(3):310-320.

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Varas-D?az N, Madera SR, Padilla M, Neilands TB, Vertovec J, Rivera-Bustelo K, Santiago-Santiago AJ, Mercado R?os CA, Reid G, Grove K, Ramos Pibernus A. Beyond financial incentives: a quantitative study on spatial stigma and Puerto Rican physician migration to the United States. Glob Public Health. 2025 Dec; 20(1):2467767.

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Williams L, Craig LS, Peacock E, Fields T, Al-Dahir S, Hawkins F, Gillard C, Singleton B, Theall K, Wilson M, D'Amour G, Vu M, Sylvain C, Franklin L, Caldwell K, Krousel-Wood M, Sarpong D. Exploring the Roles of Trust, Attitudes, and Motivations in COVID-19 Decision-Making and Vaccination Likelihood: Insights from the Louisiana Community Engagement Alliance (LA-CEAL) Community-Academic-Public Health-Practice (CAPP) Partnership. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Dec 31; 22(1).

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Enriquez-Traba J, Arenivar M, Yarur-Castillo HE, Noh C, Flores RJ, Weil T, Roy S, Usdin TB, LaGamma CT, Wang H, Tsai VS, Kerspern D, Moritz AE, Sibley DR, Lutas A, Moratalla R, Freyberg Z, Tejeda HA. Dissociable control of motivation and reinforcement by distinct ventral striatal dopamine receptors. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Jan; 28(1):105-121.

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