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Most studies instead point to the importance of more general traits, like autonomy or a sense of competence (see, for example, the voluminous research literature on Self-Determination Theory for more on such findings).

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By the early 1990s the amyloid theory attracted the interest of Lansbury, then at MIT doing basic research on how proteins fold into their complex final structures.

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By the early 1990s the amyloid theory attracted the interest of chemist Peter Lansbury, who was then at MIT doing basic research on how proteins fold into their complex final structures.

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Roth's specialty within operations research: game theory, which analyzes situations in which the outcome depends on the actions of multiple people.

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My recent Forbes article about the minimum wage contains some claims, facts, and figures based on economic theory and an extensive body of research by economists who have studied the employment effects of the minimum wage.

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