November 2024 Issue Ryan Meachen, Associate Research Fellow, Leadership & Happiness Laboratory “The future… exists within the person”, suggested Abraham Maslow , one of pioneers of humanistic psychology, renowned for his research on human potential and self-actualization. Maslow| The Leadership & Happiness Laboratory
People often strive for deep engagement in activities which is usually associated with feelings of flow: a state of full task absorption accompanied by a sense of control and fulfillment. The intrinsic factors driving such engagement and facilitating subjective feelings of flow remain unclear. Building on computational theories of intrinsic motivation, this study examines how learning progress predicts engagement and directs cognitive control. Results showed that task engagement, indicated by...| arXiv.org