Title: What Do You Enjoy Doing? | Psychology Today
Headings: What Do You Enjoy Doing?
Art Markman Ph.D.
What Do You Enjoy Doing?
A challenge can be an enjoyable thing.

Content: What Do You Enjoy Doing? | Psychology Today
Art Markman Ph.D.
Ulterior Motives
What Do You Enjoy Doing? A challenge can be an enjoyable thing. Posted Mar 02, 2012
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Source: This issue was addressed in an interesting paper by Sami Abuhamdeh and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the March, 2012 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The starting point for this paper is the observation that you perform activities for different reasons. E xtrinsically motivated activities are done because there is some goal that they achieve. A student might go to a lecture, for example, because she has to go in order to get credit for the class. Intrinsically motivated activities are done because there is something inherently rewarding about doing them. The first study in this paper examined an intrinsically motivated activity-playing chess.