Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Personality, motivation and emotion

Lecture X: Personality, motivation and emotion
This is the Xth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This lecture considers the relationships between personality, motivation, and emotion, with a focus on happiness, arousal, and control.

Readings

1. Chapter 13: Personality characteristics (Reeve, 2009)

Slides

• Lecture slides (Slideshare)
• 2014 handouts:
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See also

• Aspects of emotion (Previous lecture)
• Unconscious motivation (Next lecture)
• Individual differences psychology

External links

This video explores the (somewhat surprising) ingredients for happiness according to psychology studies:

• Why are we happy? (Dan Gilbert, 2004, 21:20, TED talk)