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Interview
Prof. Lisa Bardach at BOLD
https://bold.expert/the-psychologist-nurturing-students-positive-development/
Keynote at the International Conference on Motivation (ICM)
- Title
Revisiting intellectual investment trait theories in educational contexts - Abstract
Intellectual investment trait theories posit that mutually reinforcing relationships exist between intellectual investment traits (selected motivational characteristics and personality traits such as interest, curiosity, need for cognition, or openness) and cognitive abilities. In this talk, I discuss recent research revisiting intellectual investment trait theories in educational contexts. First, I will present longitudinal evidence on reciprocal relations between intellectual investment traits and cognitive abilities in adolescence. I will discuss theoretical and methodological extensions that take into account the day-to-day dynamic interplay between investment states and cognitive performance states, thus moving from intellectual investment trait theory to dynamic intellectual investment trait and state theory. I will also refer to emotional experiences and argue that emotions play an important role for shaping reciprocities between cognition and investment traits, and, therefore, for our understanding of cognitive and motivational development. Then, I will cover research that aims to drill deeper into the mechanisms that underlie links between investment traits and markers of cognitive performance, focusing on behavioral traces of learning and information-seeking (e.g., online information search behavior, gaze patterns while individuals solve cognitive tasks, or engagement patterns derived from educational apps).
https://icm2024.unibe.ch/program/invited_speakers/index_eng.html