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Implicit and explicit motives influence accessibility to different autobiographical knowledge.

Barbara Woike1, Shenequa Mcleod, Michelle Goggin

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

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|June 11, 2004
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Implicit and explicit motives are linked to different memory types. Implicit motives connect to specific, emotional experiences, while explicit motives relate to broader self-concept memories.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Motivation is a key aspect of personality, studied through implicit and explicit measures.
  • Implicit motives are unconscious desires, while explicit motives are conscious goals.
  • Understanding the link between motive types and memory recall is crucial for personality research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between implicit and explicit achievement and affiliation/intimacy motives and autobiographical memory characteristics.
  • To determine if memory content (emotional, self-descriptive, agentic, communal) influences motive scores.
  • To explore how memory specificity (specific vs. general events) relates to different motive types.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted involving participants recalling autobiographical memories.

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  • Participants completed implicit and explicit measures of achievement and intimacy/affiliation motivation.
  • Memories were analyzed for motivational content, emotionality, self-descriptiveness, agentic/communal themes, and specificity.

    • Main Results:

    • Implicit motive scores were higher when motivational content was present in emotional memories.
    • Explicit motive scores were higher when motivational content was present in self-descriptive memories.
    • Implicit motives correlated with specific autobiographical events, while explicit motives correlated with general achievement-related memories.

    Conclusions:

    • Implicit motives are associated with the accessibility of specific and emotional autobiographical experiences.
    • Explicit motives are more strongly linked to the accessibility of specific and general memories relevant to an individual's self-concept.
    • These findings highlight distinct memory-based pathways for implicit and explicit motivational processes.