Kou Murayama

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University of Tübingen

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Kou Murayama is a Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research focuses on educational psychology, motivation theories, and goal revision, as evidenced by his recent articles on practice testing effectiveness and academic expectations. Additionally, he explores curiosity across the adult lifespan and the interplay between motivation constructs and higher-order behavior. With a critical perspective on existing theories, Murayama contributes significantly to the understanding of learning and achievement emotions.

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Humboldt Professorship

Open Date: 2021-04-01

Close Date: 2026-03-01

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Enhancing learning and the student experience with successive relearning

Open Date: 2020-08-31

Close Date: 2024-08-30

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Psychological process underlying morbid curiosity

Open Date: 2018-04-01

Close Date: 2021-03-01

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Metamotivation

Open Date: 2018-04-01

Close Date: 2021-03-01

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An integrative theory of interest: How can we motivate ourselves without extrinsic incentives?

Open Date: 2017-09-01

Close Date: 2022-08-01

Kou Murayama

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Articles (19)

Parents’ academic expectations and aspirations predict students’ achievement emotions.

How (much) do people revise their goals after success and failure? The Triple-A model of goal revision

Curiosity across the adult lifespan: Age-related differences in state and trait curiosity

Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages?

A critical analysis of the current motivation theories in educational psychology: Why the same theories continue to dominate

A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box

Response to the critiques (and encouragements) on our critique of motivation constructs

Social contagion of challenge-seeking behavior.

The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks

A systematic review and meta‐analysis of nonpharmacological interventions for children and adolescents with selective mutism

Developmental trajectories of achievement emotions in mathematics during adolescence

Children's study habits are predicted by their parents' learning strategy preferences

How Personality Matters for Education Research

People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives

Random item slope regression: An alternative measurement model that accounts for both similarities and differences in association with individual items.

Memory of the U.K.’s 2016 EU referendum: The effects of valence on the long-term measures of a public event.

Motivated for near impossibility: How task type and reward modulate task enjoyment and the striatal activation for extremely difficult task

Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been

Exploring the within-person contemporaneous network of motivational engagement

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Thomas Goetz

Anne C. Frenzel

Shin-ichi Ishikawa

Herb Marsh

Stephanie Lichtenfeld

Victoria Joffe

Jeremy Skipper

Lily FitzGibbon

Maria Theobald

Emma Pagnamenta

Cathy Creswell

Mary Whatley

Bhismadev Chakrabarti

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