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Lecture 10: Unconscious motivation
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This is the tenth lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.
Overview
This lecture describes psychodynamic perspectives on unconscious motivation.
Images
Multimedia
- Psychological priming (Bang Goes the Theory, YouTube, 6:14 mins):
This video 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 at TEDxReset 2013 (12:51 mins; from 5:16 to 18:07 mins):
This video provides several examples of unconscious perception and decision making from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Note the camera work and editing is poor.
Readings
- Chapter 16: Unconscious motivation (Reeve, 2018)
Slides
- Lecture slides (Google Slides)
- 2020 handouts
See also
- Time perspective (Tutorial)
- Individual emotions (Previous lecture)
- Growth psychology (Next lecture)
- Related Wikipedia articles
- Id, ego and super-ego
- Loevinger's stages of ego development
- Mortality salience
- Object relations theory
- Priming
- Terror management theory
- Related book chapters
- Death anxiety (Book chapter, 2016)
- Psychodynamic perspective of motivation (Book chapter, 2014)
- Terror management theory (Book chapter, 2020)
Recording
- Lecture 10 recording (2020) - TBA
- Lecture 10 recording (2019)
External links
- New York City subway stairs (YouTube; 1:27 mins)
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