Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Unconscious motivation

Lecture 10: Unconscious motivation
This is the tenth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

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

Freud's psychoanalytic couch – arguably the birthplace of modern psychology

Freud's Id, Ego, and Superego model is often depicted as an iceberg

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.

Freud, S. (1917). [Original work published 1905]. Wit and its relation to the unconscious. http://www.bartleby.com/279/

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