Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Psychological needs and implicit motives

Lecture 04: Psychological needs and implicit motives

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

Overview

This lecture discusses human motivation in terms of psychological needs and implicit motives.

Images

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  Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Readings

1. Chapter 06: Psychological needs (Reeve, 2015)
2. Chapter 07: Implicit motives (Reeve, 2015)

Slides

• Lecture slides (Slideshare)
• 2015 handouts:
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See also

• Brain and physiological needs (Previous lecture)
• Motivation and goals (Next lecture)
• Tutorial 2: Needs

External links

This video explains the psychological ingredients for harnessing motivation in the workplace:

• Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation (RSA Animate) (11 min)

This video provides an example of one of the main type of social need - the need for power:

• BBC Interview with Rupert Murdoch (Youtube, 1968) (6 min)