Johnmarshall Reeve

31.4k total citations · 15 hit papers
121 papers, 17.3k citations indexed

About

Johnmarshall Reeve is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Johnmarshall Reeve has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 17.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Social Psychology, 46 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 40 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Johnmarshall Reeve's work include Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (81 papers), Youth Development and Social Support (40 papers) and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (34 papers). Johnmarshall Reeve is often cited by papers focused on Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (81 papers), Youth Development and Social Support (40 papers) and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (34 papers). Johnmarshall Reeve collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Australia. Johnmarshall Reeve's co-authors include Hyungshim Jang, Sung Hyeon Cheon, Edward L. Deci, Ching-Mei Tseng, Eun Joo Kim, Patricia L. Hardré, Woogul Lee, Alice M. Isen, Soohyun Jeon and Yi Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, American Psychologist and Journal of Educational Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Johnmarshall Reeve

116 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

Engaging students in learning activities: It is not auton... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2010 2009 2004 2006 2011 250 500 750 1000
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Engaging students in learning activities: It is not autonomy support or structure but autonomy support and structure.
    2010 1.1k citations Hyungshim Jang, Johnmarshall Reeve et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  2. Why Teachers Adopt a Controlling Motivating Style Toward Students and How They Can Become More Autonomy Supportive
    2009 1.0k citations Johnmarshall Reeve Educational Psychologist profile →
  3. Enhancing Students' Engagement by Increasing Teachers' Autonomy Support
    2004 1.0k citations Johnmarshall Reeve, Hyungshim Jang et al. Motivation and Emotion profile →
  4. What teachers say and do to support students' autonomy during a learning activity.
    2006 996 citations Johnmarshall Reeve, Hyungshim Jang Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  5. Agency as a fourth aspect of students’ engagement during learning activities
    2011 946 citations Johnmarshall Reeve et al. profile →
  6. How students create motivationally supportive learning environments for themselves: The concept of agentic engagement.
    2013 659 citations Johnmarshall Reeve Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  7. A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Intervention Programs Designed to Support Autonomy
    2010 533 citations Johnmarshall Reeve et al. profile →
  8. Self-determination theory applied to educational settings.
    2002 529 citations Johnmarshall Reeve profile →
  9. Teachers as Facilitators: What Autonomy‐Supportive Teachers Do and Why Their Students Benefit
    2006 524 citations Johnmarshall Reeve profile →
  10. Why students become more engaged or more disengaged during the semester: A self-determination theory dual-process model
    2016 482 citations Hyungshim Jang, Johnmarshall Reeve et al. Learning and Instruction profile →
  11. Longitudinal test of self-determination theory's motivation mediation model in a naturally occurring classroom context.
    2012 371 citations Hyungshim Jang, Johnmarshall Reeve et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  12. Toward an integrative and fine-grained insight in motivating and demotivating teaching styles: The merits of a circumplex approach.
    2018 348 citations Nathalie Aelterman, Maarten Vansteenkiste et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  13. Experimentally Based, Longitudinally Designed, Teacher-Focused Intervention to Help Physical Education Teachers Be More Autonomy Supportive Toward Their Students
    2012 322 citations Sung Hyeon Cheon, Johnmarshall Reeve et al. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology profile →
  14. Autonomy-supportive teaching: Its malleability, benefits, and potential to improve educational practice
    2021 300 citations Johnmarshall Reeve, Sung Hyeon Cheon Educational Psychologist profile →
  15. When teachers learn how to provide classroom structure in an autonomy-supportive way: Benefits to teachers and their students
    2020 164 citations Sung Hyeon Cheon, Johnmarshall Reeve et al. Teaching and Teacher Education profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Johnmarshall Reeve South Korea 58 10.7k 6.3k 4.3k 4.2k 3.5k 121 17.3k
Robert J. Vallerand Canada 68 13.2k 1.2× 3.1k 0.5× 5.1k 1.2× 4.3k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 152 21.3k
Frédéric Guay Canada 51 6.7k 0.6× 4.1k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 3.4k 0.8× 1.9k 0.5× 145 12.4k
Judith M. Harackiewicz United States 65 10.0k 0.9× 7.1k 1.1× 4.4k 1.0× 10.6k 2.5× 2.6k 0.8× 134 19.9k
Robert J. Vallerand Canada 60 10.2k 1.0× 2.2k 0.3× 4.0k 0.9× 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 174 16.4k
Willy Lens Belgium 47 8.1k 0.8× 2.9k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 4.3k 1.0× 1.8k 0.5× 160 13.8k
Ellen A. Skinner United States 45 6.5k 0.6× 7.7k 1.2× 2.7k 0.6× 3.3k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 101 16.8k
Bart Soenens Belgium 80 13.5k 1.3× 5.0k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 4.5k 1.1× 3.2k 0.9× 336 24.6k
Frank Pajares United States 50 5.7k 0.5× 11.1k 1.8× 5.2k 1.2× 6.2k 1.5× 2.5k 0.7× 82 20.2k
Ulrich Trautwein Germany 71 7.7k 0.7× 10.1k 1.6× 2.8k 0.6× 7.5k 1.8× 1.8k 0.5× 338 20.7k
Oliver Lüdtke Germany 72 8.3k 0.8× 9.3k 1.5× 2.8k 0.6× 7.6k 1.8× 1.6k 0.4× 309 21.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johnmarshall Reeve

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reeve, Johnmarshall, et al.. (2025). Teaching with confidence: How a skill-based intervention develops teacher self-efficacy and improves educational outcomes. Teaching and Teacher Education. 167. 105202–105202. 1 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall & Woogul Lee. (2025). Autonomy recruits neural support for interest and learning. Motivation and Emotion. 1 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sung Hyeon, et al.. (2024). Two Randomized Controlled Trials to Help Teachers Develop Physical Education Students’ Course-Specific Grit-Perseverance and Mental Toughness. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 46(5). 266–282. 5 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sung Hyeon, et al.. (2024). Autonomy-supportive teaching leads to autonomy-supportive parenting: A teacher-to-parent relationship spillover effect. Teaching and Teacher Education. 144. 104548–104548. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Woon Chia, et al.. (2024). “Who Just Pushed My Metaphoric Button”? An Examination of Student-Related Factors Influencing Teachers’ Motivating Styles. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. 33(6). 1467–1480. 1 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall & Sung Hyeon Cheon. (2024). Learning how to become an autonomy-supportive teacher begins with perspective taking: A randomized control trial and model test. Teaching and Teacher Education. 148. 104702–104702. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Woon Chia, et al.. (2023). A qualitative study into the personal factors influencing secondary school teachers’ motivating styles. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1127090–1127090. 3 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sung Hyeon, Johnmarshall Reeve, & Herbert W. Marsh. (2023). Autonomy-Supportive Teaching Enhances Prosocial and Reduces Antisocial Behavior via Classroom Climate and Psychological Needs: A Multilevel Randomized Control Intervention. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 45(1). 26–40. 28 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sung Hyeon, Johnmarshall Reeve, Herbert W. Marsh, & Hye-Ryen Jang. (2023). Cluster randomized control trial to reduce peer victimization: An autonomy-supportive teaching intervention changes the classroom ethos to support defending bystanders.. American Psychologist. 78(7). 856–872. 12 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sung Hyeon, Johnmarshall Reeve, Herbert W. Marsh, & Yong-Gwan Song. (2022). Intervention-enabled autonomy-supportive teaching improves the PE classroom climate to reduce antisocial behavior. Psychology of sport and exercise. 60. 102174–102174. 23 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall, et al.. (2021). When students show some initiative: Two experiments on the benefits of greater agentic engagement. Learning and Instruction. 80. 101564–101564. 27 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall & Sung Hyeon Cheon. (2021). Autonomy-supportive teaching: Its malleability, benefits, and potential to improve educational practice. Educational Psychologist. 56(1). 54–77. 300 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Woogul & Johnmarshall Reeve. (2020). Remembering pleasure and personal meaning from episodes of intrinsic motivation: an fMRI study. Motivation and Emotion. 44(6). 810–818. 8 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall, et al.. (2020). An autonomy-supportive intervention to develop students’ resilience by boosting agentic engagement. International Journal of Behavioral Development. 44(4). 325–338. 70 indexed citations
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Jang, Hye-Ryen, Johnmarshall Reeve, Sung Hyeon Cheon, & Yong-Gwan Song. (2019). Dual processes to explain longitudinal gains in physical education students’ prosocial and antisocial behavior: Need satisfaction from autonomy support and need frustration from interpersonal control.. Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology. 9(3). 471–487. 25 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sung Hyeon, Johnmarshall Reeve, Youngsun Lee, et al.. (2018). Expanding autonomy psychological need states from two (satisfaction, frustration) to three (dissatisfaction): A classroom-based intervention study.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 111(4). 685–702. 92 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall & Woogul Lee. (2018). A neuroscientific perspective on basic psychological needs. Journal of Personality. 87(1). 102–114. 54 indexed citations
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Aelterman, Nathalie, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Leen Haerens, et al.. (2018). Toward an integrative and fine-grained insight in motivating and demotivating teaching styles: The merits of a circumplex approach.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 111(3). 497–521. 348 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hardré, Patricia L. & Johnmarshall Reeve. (2003). A motivational model of rural students' intentions to persist in, versus drop out of, high school.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 95(2). 347–356. 443 indexed citations
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Reeve, Johnmarshall, et al.. (1986). Adding excitement to intrinsic motivation research.. Journal of social behavior and personality. 26 indexed citations

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