Changing, priming, and acting on values: Effects via motivational relations in a circular model

Maio, Gregory Richard, Pakizeh, Ali, Cheung, Wing-Yee and Rees, Kerry John 2009. Changing, priming, and acting on values: Effects via motivational relations in a circular model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 97 (4) , pp. 699-715. 10.1037/a0016420

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Abstract

Circular models of values and goals suggest that some motivational aims are consistent with each other, some oppose each other, and others are orthogonal to each other. The present experiments tested this idea explicitly by examining how value confrontation and priming methods influence values and value-consistent behaviors throughout the entire value system. Experiment 1 revealed that change in 1 set of social values causes motivationally compatible values to increase in importance, whereas motivationally incompatible values decrease in importance and orthogonal values remain the same. Experiment 2 found that priming security values reduced the better-than-average effect, but priming stimulation values increased it. Similarly, Experiments 3 and 4 found that priming security values increased cleanliness and decreased curiosity behaviors, whereas priming self-direction values decreased cleanliness and increased curiosity behaviors. Experiment 5 found that priming achievement values increased success at puzzle completion and decreased helpfulness to an experimenter, whereas priming with benevolence values decreased success and increased helpfulness. These results highlight the importance of circular models describing motivational interconnections between values and personal goals

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	1939-1315
Last Modified:	28 Jun 2019 03:04
URI:	http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/11586

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