Frontiers in Psychology | |
Are implicit motives revealed in mere words? Testing the marker-word hypothesis with computer-based text analysis | |
Oliver C. Schultheiss1  | |
关键词: linguistic analysis; implicit motives; picture story exercise; thematic apperception; activity inhibition; personality; assessment; | |
DOI : 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00748 | |
学科分类:心理学(综合) | |
来源: Frontiers | |
【 摘 要 】
Traditionally, implicit motives (i.e., non-conscious preferences for specific classes of incentives) are assessed through semantic coding of imaginative stories. The present research tested the marker-word hypothesis, which states that implicit motives are reflected in the frequencies of specific words. Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Pennebaker et al., 2001), Study 1 identified word categories that converged with a content-coding measure of the implicit motives for power, achievement, and affiliation in picture stories collected in German and US student samples, showed discriminant validity with self-reported motives, and predicted well-validated criteria of implicit motives (gender difference for the affiliation motive; in interaction with personal-goal progress: emotional well-being). Study 2 demonstrated LIWC-based motive scores' causal validity by documenting their sensitivity to motive arousal.
【 授权许可】
CC BY
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