Richard Ryan || Self-Determination Theory & Human Motivation

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today it’s great to have Richard Ryan on the podcast. Dr. Ryan is a professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University in North Sydney and professor emeritus in psychology at the University of Rochester. Dr. Ryan is a clinical psychologist and co-developer of Self-Determination Theory (SDT), one of the leading theories of human motivation. He’s among the most cited researchers in psychology and social sciences today, ranking among the top 1% of researchers in the field. Dr. Ryan has been recognized as one of the eminent psychologists of the modern era, listed among the top 20 most influential industrial organizational psychologists and has been honored with many distinguished career awards. He’s co-author with Edward Deci of the book Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness.

Topics

· Dr. Ryan’s interest in psychology

· Dr. Ryan’s influences in psychology and philosophy

· What is self-determination?

· The continuum of motivation

· The underdog narrative as a motivating force

· Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Needs

· Is benevolence a basic need?

· Ego involvement in exploration and self-esteem

· Dr. Ryan’s attempt to meet Maslow

· Transcendence, mindfulness, and integration

· Self-Determination Theory in relationships

· Changing organization culture through motivationWorks

· How do we fix the current education system?

· Dr. Ryan’s view of positive psychology

· SDT as a criterion to improve social policy

· Dr. Ryan’s upcoming projects

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0:00.0	Today it's great to have Richard Ryan on the podcast.
0:17.0	Dr Ryan is a professor of the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian
0:21.0	Catholic University in North Sydney and Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Rochester.
0:26.1	Dr Ryan is a clinical psychologist and co-developer of self-determination theory, one of the leading theories of human motivation. He is among the most cited
0:34.3	researchers in psychology and social sciences today, ranking among the top 1% of researchers in the field.
0:40.0	Dr. Ryan has been recognized as one of the eminent psychologists of the modern era listed among the top 20 most influential industrial organizational psychologists and has been honored with many distinguished career awards.
0:51.0	His co-author with Edward D.C. of the book Self-Determination Theory,
0:55.3	Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness.
0:59.3	Rich, it's so great to finally have a sit down and have a chat with you.
1:02.6	Yeah, it's great to be here.
1:04.0	Thanks for inviting me.
1:05.4	My pleasure.
1:06.4	I want to just go back to kind of trace the development of your thinking
1:09.7	and just who you are a little bit.
1:11.2	You know, why, how do you get into the field of
1:12.8	psychology in the first place who was cow you know those kind of questions are
1:17.6	always pretty complicated it was a for me it was a circuitous route but I suppose
1:21.9	this part would interest you a lot I was a
1:23.3	security route but I suppose this part would interest you a lot. I was a philosophy
1:24.2	major when I was an undergraduate and I had a strong interest in
1:29.2	phenomenology in particular and issues of freedom and dialectics and so that
1:34.8	guaranteed that I was unemployed upon graduation and so a result of that was
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