Motivation

Unconscious motivation. Part I: Implicit attitudes toward L2 speakers

“…Contemporary motivational psychology has started to reconsider some of the fundamentals of the cognitive revolution (for reviews, see e.g., Al-Hoorie, 2015;Bargh, Gollwitzer, & Oettingen, 2010). More specifically, there has been a resurgence in the interest in attitudes and motivation that operate outside conscious awareness.…”

Understanding the Human Factor of the Energy Transition: Mechanisms Underlying Energy-Relevant Decisions and Behaviors

“…Research has shown that given this uncertainty, individual orientation vis-à-vis global warming may be shaped by an alternative, automatic route to goal pursuit that functions without involving one's conscious awareness. Under such a scenario, external environmental stimuli trigger relevant mental representations that effect immediate action, but people are not, and usually remain, unaware of the influence exerted by those stimuli (Bargh et al, 2010;Loersch and Payne, 2011;. For example, the exposure to heat-related primes and to anchors for future rises in temperature increased the level of belief in climate change and the willingness to pay to combat global warming (Joireman et al, 2010;Risen and Critcher, 2011).…”

The transformations of utility theory: a behavioral perspective

“…When cognition intervenes into making choices this can lead to modifications of the baseline behavior discussed so far. For that reason, the explanation of both the motivation to act and the way in which actions come to be chosen when a motivation to act exists has to account for cognitive influences (see Bargh et al 2010 for the following). Regarding the motivation to act, cognitive activity can result in goal setting and a corresponding goal striving as a motivational force of its own.…”