Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attention Orienting to Facial Expressions of Emotion
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Authors
Horn, Theresa V.
Issue Date
2004
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Thesis
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en_US
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Motivations can be categorized into explicit and implicit motives. Explicit motives can
predict immediate behavior and are typically aroused by external rewards. Implicit
motives can predict long-term behavioral patterns and are aroused by rewarding
emotional incentives. One method of assessing an incentive's strength is by measuring
the amount of attention directed toward the incentive. Prior research has not examined the
effects of the implicit power motive (n Power) on the punishing or rewarding incentives
of happy, angry, and neutral facial expressions. To test this relationship, students
completed a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to measure the presence of implicit
motives, and then engaged in two attention orienting tasks. Participants completed a dot
stimulus attention task and a Stroop task while being exposed to different facial
' expressions of emotion (FEEs) either at a conscious or unconscious level. Next,
participants' presence of the explicit power motive was measured using the Personality
Research Form (PRF). It was predicted that individuals high inn Power directed less
attention toward punishing stimuli (happy and angry FEEs), and more attention toward
rewarding stimuli (neutral FEEs). Furthermore, it was hypothesized that an individual's
explicit and implicit motives would not significantly correlate.
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