Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Unconscious motivation
Lecture 10: Unconscious motivation
This is the tenth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.
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Overview
[edit | edit source]This lecture:
- discusses unconscious aspects of motivation, including historical psychoanalytic perspectives and contemporary perspectives about the adaptive unconscious, priming, and psychodynamics
Take-home message:
- Motivation often arises from, and is influenced by, sources byeond conscious awareness
Outline
[edit | edit source]- Psychodynamic perspective
- The unconscious
- Psychodynamics
- Ego psychology
- Object relations theory
Multimedia
[edit | edit source]- Psychological priming (Bang Goes the Theory, YouTube) (6:14 mins): shows three experiments which indicate that, when primed by handling money, people eat more chocolate, are less likely to help others, and can tolerate more pain.
- How your unconscious mind rules your behaviour (Leonard Mlodinow, TEDxReset 2013, YouTube) (12:51 mins): Examples of unconscious perception and decision making from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Note: camera work and editing is poor.
Readings
[edit | edit source]- Chapter 16: Unconscious motivation (Reeve, 2018)
References
[edit | edit source]Jung, C. G. (Ed.) (1964). Man and his symbols. Doubleday.
Lodder, P., Ong, H. H., Grasman, R. P., & Wicherts, J. M. (2019). A comprehensive meta-analysis of money priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(4), 688. http://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000570 https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/29126856/Lodder_et_al._2019_A_Comprehensive_Meta_analysis_of_Money_Priming.pdf
Stajkovic, A. D., Greenwald, J. M., & Stajkovic, K. S. (2022). The money priming debate revisited: A review, meta‐analysis, and extension to organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(6), 1078–1102. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2619 https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/29126856/Lodder_et_al._2019_A_Comprehensive_Meta_analysis_of_Money_Priming.pdf
Slides
[edit | edit source]- Unconscious motivation (Google Slides)
See also
[edit | edit source]- Lectures
- Individual emotions (Previous lecture)
- Growth psychology (Next lecture)
- Implicit motives and goals (Related lecture)
- Tutorial
- Wikipedia
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Checker shadow illusion
- Daniel Kahneman
- Defence mechanism
- Id, ego and super-ego
- Mortality salience
- Object relations theory
- Priming
- Psychoanalysis
- Stages of ego development (Loevinger)
- Stairway to Heaven - Claims of backmasking
- Terror management theory
- Thought suppression
- Wikiversity
- Death anxiety (Book chapter, 2016)
- Money priming, motivation, and emotion (Book chapter, 2022)
- Psychodynamic perspective of motivation (Book chapter, 2014)
- Subliminal priming and motivation (Book chapter, 2020)
- Terror management theory (Book chapter, 2020)
- Unconscious motivation (Book chapter, 2020)
Recording
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 10 recording (2024)
External links
[edit | edit source]- New York City subway stairs (YouTube; 1:27 mins)
- President's Day optical illusion (anopticalillusion.com)
- Sigmund Freud's famous psychoanalytic couch (Freud Museum London)
- What “Stairway to Heaven” teaches us about our brains (theifod.com)
- Why a touch can double your chances of getting a date (Leonard Mlodinow, Psychology Today, 2012)