PSYCH232 Lecture 6: lecture 6 Winter 2012
20 Mar 2013
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What is hate: motive hate is a motive, not an emotion hate involves goals; the goal of hate is to diminish or destroy the well-being of another hate is the intent of harm, motive is thermostatic. When a motive is activated, it will stay switched on until you get your goal and when you get your goal, it will turn off. If you don"t get the goal, it will stay switched on: instrumental or ultimate goal. Instrumental it is the mean to an end (i want them to get hurt because i want justice to be served) Ultimate goal the end itself: emotions as antecedents various emotions may trigger hate to harm. How do we know: the prototype study rate what does hate means to you from 1 to 7. Motive to harm gets 4. 84; strong emotion gets 4. 02; weak emotion (i. e. irritation) gets 2. Motive to harm > strong emotion > weak emotion.
