Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Implicit motives and goals

Overview
This lecture discusses:
 * implicit motives
 * goal-setting and goal striving

Key questions:
 * What are implicit motives? How do they arise?
 * What are the key elements for successful goal setting and goal pursuit?

Take-home messages:
 * Implicit (unconscious) motives are socialised rather than innate, and include achievement, affiliation/intimacy, and power motivations.
 * People perform best when they have a specific plan of action to pursue a difficult, specific, and self-congruent goal.

Outline
Implicit motives
 * Explicit vs. implicit motives
 * Achievement
 * Affiliation
 * Power

Goal setting and goal striving
 * Corrective motivation
 * Goal setting
 * Goal striving

Multimedia

 * David McClelland and three motivational needs (Management Courses, YouTube) (8:12 mins): Explains the three psychological needs proposed by David McClelland using a practical scenario – building a sales team.
 * Locke and Latham's Goal Setting Theory (MindTools, YouTube) (1:29 mins): A lot of contemporary goal setting advice is derived from Locke and Latham's (1990) goal setting theory which is summarised in this video in terms of clarity, challenge, commitment, feedback and complexity.

Readings

 * Chapter 07: Implicit motives (Reeve, 2018)
 * Chapter 08: Goal setting and goal striving (Reeve, 2018)

Slides

 * Implicit motives (Google Slides)
 * Goal setting and goal striving (Google Slides)

Recording

 * Lecture 05 (2023)