Achievement motivation in the social context : implicit and explicit Hope of Success and Fear of Failure predict memory for and liking of successful and unsuccessful peers

• Main Authors: Villacorta, Mark A., Chin, Yammie S., Morrison, Frederik J., Pang, Joyce S.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91173; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6160
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The authors examined relations between implicit and explicit Hope of Success (HS) and Fear of Failure (FF) and memory and liking for successful and unsuccessful peers. Implicit motives were expected to predict memory and explicit motives to predict liking of peers. Results from 106 American and 79 S...