Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Unconscious motivation

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

Outline

 * Psychodynamic perspective
 * The unconscious
 * Psychodynamics
 * Ego psychology
 * Object relations theory

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

 * 1) Chapter 16: Unconscious motivation (Reeve, 2018)

Slides

 * Unconscious motivation (Google Slides)

Recording

 * Lecture 10 recording (2023)