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Epistemic Motivation Is What Gets the Learner Started

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Bernd Carette  and
Frederik Anseel
Bernd Carette*
Affiliation:
Ghent University
Frederik Anseel
Affiliation:
Ghent University
*
E-mail: bernd.carette@ugent.be, Address: Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 306 - 309
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2012 

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This research was supported by a PhD research grant from the Fund for Scientific Research–Flanders (FWO).

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