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Implicit Motives

Oliver Schultheiss and Joachim Brunstein

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the history of research on implicit motives. Six common principles of implicit motive research are laid out: (1) Implicit motives are nonconscious, (2) motive arousal is associated with characteristic changes in thought content and behavior, (3) motives act as affect amplifiers, (4) motives interact with situational incentives to shape behavior, (5) motives affect multiple levels of psychological functioning, and (6) the number of implicit motives is biologically constrained. The chapter also provides an overview of the structure and topics of the book.

Keywords: history, implicit motives, common principles

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780195335156
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335156.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Oliver Schultheiss, Author
University of Michigan

Joachim Brunstein, Author
Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Introduction

Section 1 Motive Systems

Chapter 1 Power Motivation

Chapter 2 The Achievement Motive: A Review of Theory and Assessment of n Achievement, Hope of Success, and Fear of Failure

Chapter 3 The Duality of Affiliative Motivation

Chapter 4 Activity Inhibition

Section 2 Assessment of Implicit Motives

Chapter 5 Content Coding Methods in Implicit Motive Assessment: Standards of Measurement and Best Practices for the Picture Story Exercise

Chapter 6 Assessing Individual Differences in Achievement Motivation with the Implicit Association Test: Predictive Validity of a Chronometric Measure of the Self-Concept “Me = Successful”

Chapter 7 Computer-Based Modeling, Assessment, and Coding of Implicit Motives

Section 3 Basic Concepts and Processes

Chapter 8 Learning and Memory Correlates of Implicit Motives

Chapter 9 Properties of Motive-Specific Incentives

Chapter 10 Biopsychological and Neural Processes of Implicit Motivation

Chapter 11 Factors That Influence the Relation Between Implicit and Explicit Motives: A General Implicit–Explicit Congruence Framework

Chapter 12 Implicit Motives and Explicit Goals: The Role of Motivational Congruence in Emotional Well-Being

Chapter 13 Implicit Motives: A Look from Personality Systems Interaction Theory

Section 4 Interdisciplinary and Applied Aspects

Chapter 14 Political and Historical Consequences of Implicit Motives

Chapter 15 Research on Implicit Motives Across Cultures

Chapter 16 Clinical Implications of Implicit Motives

Chapter 17 Competencies as a Behavioral Manifestation of Implicit Motives

Chapter 18 Motive Training and Motivational Competence

End Matter

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