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Motive-related memories: content, structure, and affect.

B Woike1, M Polo

  • 1Department of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. bw81@columbia.edu

Journal of Personality
|August 2, 2001
PubMed
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Implicit motives influence autobiographical memory content and structure. Agentic and communal individuals recall motive-congruent memories, but affect links are less clear, possibly due to measurement differences.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Implicit motives are unconscious drivers of behavior.
  • Autobiographical memory stores personal life events.
  • The interplay between motives, memory, and affect is complex.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how agentic and communal motives shape autobiographical memory content and structure.
  • To examine the relationship between implicit motives and affect experienced during memory recall.
  • To test hypotheses on motive congruence and memory characteristics.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies involving participants with measured agentic and communal motives.
  • Daily recording of memorable experiences and affect over six weeks (Study 1).

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  • Recall of social separation/connection events and affect measurement (Study 2).
  • Content and structural coding of memories, including differentiation and integration analyses.

    • Main Results:

    • Participants recalled more memories congruent with their dominant motive (agentic or communal).
    • Agentic motives correlated with memory differentiation; communal motives with integration.
    • Agentic individuals showed higher positive affect (PA) and lower negative affect (NA).
    • Motive-congruent memories were recalled in specific social contexts (separation/connection).

    Conclusions:

    • Implicit motives significantly impact the content and structure of autobiographical memories.
    • The link between implicit motives and self-reported affect is modest and potentially influenced by measurement methods.
    • Findings highlight the role of motivational systems in memory organization and recall.