Implicit motives and implicit emotions : testing the effect of motivated states on affect dimensions

• Main Author: Yeo, Zhi Zheng
• Other Authors: Joyce Pang Shu Min
• Format: Student Research Poster
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Implicit; Motives
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104978; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25915
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The specificity hypothesis (McClelland, 1985) suggests that specific emotions (e.g., anger, happiness, and surprise) relate to specific motives (e.g., power, affiliation, and achievement). Zurbiggen and Sturman (2002) demonstrated weak linkages. Their weak evidence may be due to their use of measure...