Emotions as Drivers of Learning and Cognitive Development

By Reinhard Pekrun. 2011

173 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Doug Lombardi
2. Gale M. Sinatra
3. Jennifer J. Vogel-Walcutt
4. C. Picton
5. E. Michael Nussbaum
6. Charles R. Graham
7. Lisa R. Halverson
8. Logan Fiorella

In Social Psychology

1. Doug Lombardi
2. E. Michael Nussbaum
3. Gale M. Sinatra
4. Jennifer J. Vogel-Walcutt
5. C. Picton
6. Charles R. Graham
7. Lisa R. Halverson
8. Logan Fiorella

Citations in the corpus

• Linking academic emotions and student engagement: mature-aged distance students’ transition to university (2015, background): “It is recognised that academic emotions emerge from a transaction between the person and their environment (Pekrun 2011; Schutz et al. 2006), and this is reflected in the findings.”
• Learner Engagement in Blended Learning Environments: A Conceptual Framework (2019, background): “Pekrun (2011) argued that emotions influence “a broad variety of cognitive processes that contribute to learning, such as perception, attention, memory, decision making, and cognitive problem solving” (p. 26), and Skinner and Pitzer (2012) labeled emotion “the fuel for the kind of behavioral and…”
• The Definition, Assessment, and Mitigation of State Boredom Within Educational Settings: A Comprehensive Review (2012, background): “Consequently, researchers have recently begun to distinguish between “basic” and “academic” emotions (Pekrun 2011).”
• Student interest as a key driver of engagement for first year students. (2017, background): “Early research on emotion in education focused narrowly on test anxiety, but more recent research explores a wide range of academic emotions associated with learning, instruction, and achievement (Pekrun, 2011).”
• Plausibility Judgments in Conceptual Change and Epistemic Cognition (2016, background): “This additional piece of information prompts her curiosity (an epistemic emotion; Pekrun, 2011) about humans’ role in climate change (see Reappraisal Prompt Dashed Box, Figure 2).”