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Exploring the Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in Online Citizen Science (2024)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Spence, A., Lintott, C., Miller, G., Sprinks, J., Blickhan, S., & Houghton, R. (2025). Exploring the Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in Online Citizen Science. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 8(1-2), 1-36, 4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3702210

Understanding engagement with and motivations to contribute to online citizen science projects can improve user experience and aid in attracting and retaining users. This article proposes that the fundamental grounding of self-determination theory, b... Read More about Exploring the Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in Online Citizen Science.

Approaching future rewards or waiting for them to arrive: Spatial representations of time and intertemporal choice (2024)
Journal Article
Fletcher, D., Houghton, R., & Spence, A. (2024). Approaching future rewards or waiting for them to arrive: Spatial representations of time and intertemporal choice. PLoS ONE, 19(4), e0301781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301781

Our mental representation of the passage of time is structured by concepts of spatial motion, including an ego-moving perspective in which the self is perceived as approaching future events and a time-moving perspective in which future events are per... Read More about Approaching future rewards or waiting for them to arrive: Spatial representations of time and intertemporal choice.

Thinking about your future self: Do better perspective-takers make more patient decisions? (2023)
Journal Article
Fletcher, D., Spence, A., & Houghton, R. (2023). Thinking about your future self: Do better perspective-takers make more patient decisions?. Personality and Individual Differences, 212, 112281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112281

Decisions involving costs and rewards materialising at different points in time (intertemporal decisions) are prevalent in everyday life and can have significant consequences for well-being across the lifespan. Recent neuroimaging research points to... Read More about Thinking about your future self: Do better perspective-takers make more patient decisions?.