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– Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1975). *Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
– Csikszentmihalyi, M., & LeFevre, J. (1989). Optimal experience in work and leisure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56*(5), 815-822.
Claremont Graduate University
– Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2009). Flow theory and research. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), *Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 195-206). New York: Oxford University Press.
– Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Nakamura, J. (2010). Effortless attention in everyday life: A systematic phenomenology. In B. Bruya (Ed.), Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action* (pp. 179-189). MIT Press.
Stanford University
– Keller, J., & Bless, H. (2008). Flow and regulatory compatibility: An experimental approach to the flow model of intrinsic motivation. *Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(2), 196-209.
– Jin, S. A. A. (2012). “Flow” in video games: A meta-synthesis. Communication Theory, 22(4), 343-367. (Research affiliated with Stanford’s HCI group).
Harvard University
– Shernoff, D. J., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Schneider, B., & Shernoff, E. S. (2003). Student engagement in high school classrooms from the perspective of flow theory. School Psychology Quarterly, 18(2), 158-176.
– Hunter, J. P., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2003). The positive psychology of interested adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 32(1), 27-35. (Although Csikszentmihalyi was at Claremont Graduate University, this study was conducted in collaboration with researchers at Harvard).
University of California, Berkeley
– Dietrich, A. (2004). Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the experience of flow. Consciousness and Cognition, 13(4), 746-761.
– Raichle, M. E. (2009). A paradigm shift in functional brain imaging. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(41), (Research on the Default Mode Network and its relation to flow states).
– Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Rathunde, K. (1993). The measurement of flow in everyday life: Toward a theory of emergent motivation. In J. E. Jacobs (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1992: Developmental Perspectives on Motivation (pp. 57-97). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
– Seligman, M. E. P., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Positive psychology: An introduction. American Psychologist, 55(1), 5-14.
University of Oxford
– Jackson, S. A., & Eklund, R. C. (2004). The flow scales manual. Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology. (Work affiliated with visiting scholars at the University of Oxford).
– Koehn, S., Morris, T., & Watt, A. P. (2013). Flow state in self-paced and externally-paced performance contexts: An examination of the flow model. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14*(6), 787-795.
University of Cambridge
– Engeser, S., & Rheinberg, F. (2008). Flow, performance and moderators of challenge-skill balance. Motivation and Emotion, 32(3), 158-172. (This study involved collaboration with researchers at Cambridge).
– MacDonald, R., Byrne, C., & Carlton, L. (2006). Creativity and flow in musical composition: An empirical investigation. *Psychology of Music, 34*(3), 292-306.
University of Melbourne
– Jackson, S. A. (1995). Factors influencing the occurrence of flow in elite athletes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 7(2), 138-166.
– Bakker, A. B. (2005). Flow among music teachers and their students: The crossover of peak experiences. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 66(1), 26-44.
University of Toronto
– Jackson, S. A., Martin, A. J., & Eklund, R. C. (2008). Long and short measures of flow: The construct validity of the FSS-2, DFS-2, and new brief counterparts. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 30(5), 561-587.
– Chen, J., & Wigfield, A. (2007). Interplay of motivation and cognitive engagement in academic learning. *Educational Psychologist, 42*(3), 189-206. (Study affiliated with visiting researchers at the University of Toronto).
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