Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Unconscious motivation
Lecture 10: Unconscious motivation
This is the tenth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.
 | The 2023 lecture is complete. The 2024 lecture is in development. |
Overview
This lecture:
- describes psychodynamic perspectives on unconscious motivation
Take-home message:
- Motivation often arises from sources outside of conscious awareness
Multimedia
- 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.
Readings
- Chapter 16: Unconscious motivation (Reeve, 2018)
Slides
- Lecture slides
- Unconscious motivation (Google Slides)
- Handouts
See also
- Lectures
- Individual emotions (Previous lecture)
- Growth psychology (Next lecture)
- Tutorial
- Wikipedia
- Id, ego and super-ego
- Mortality salience
- Object relations theory
- Priming
- Psychoanalysis
- Stages of ego development (Loevinger)
- Terror management theory
- Wikiversity
- Death anxiety (Book chapter, 2016)
- Psychodynamic perspective of motivation (Book chapter, 2014)
- Subliminal priming and motivation (Book chapter, 2020)
- Terror management theory (Book chapter, 2020)
- Unconscious motivation (Book chapter, 2020)
Recording
- Lecture 10 recording (2020) - TBA
- Lecture 10 recording (2019)
External links
- New York City subway stairs (YouTube; 1:27 mins)
- Sigmund Freud's famous psychoanalytic couch (Freud Museum London)