Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Unconscious motivation

Lecture 10: Unconscious motivation

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This is the tenth lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

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This lecture:

discusses unconscious aspects of motivation, including psychodynamic perspectives

Take-home message:

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.