Inspiration as a psychological construct.

By Todd M. Thrash, A. Elliot. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Customer Inspiration: Conceptualization, Scale Development, and Validation (2017, background): “However, inspiration is a specific intrinsic motivation because it is evoked by an external source and is connected to the realization of new ideas (Thrash and Elliot 2003).”
Persuasive Design of Destination Web Sites: An Analysis of First Impression (2008, background): “Inspiration is defined as an infusion of some idea or purpose into the mind (Thrash and Elliot 2003).”
Nostalgia: content, triggers, functions. (2006, background): “Indeed, autobiographical narratives have proved to be a valuable source of information regarding a wide range emotional states, including inspiration ( Thrash & Elliot, 2003, 2004 ), anger (Baumeister, Stillwell, & Wotman, 1990), unrequited love (Baumeister, Wotman, & Stillwell, 1993), shame and gui”
Knowing What It Makes: How Product Transformation Salience Increases Recycling (2019, background): “…inspired by something, in which one gains awareness of new or better possibilities that one would not have recognized on one’s own, and (2) an intention component, being inspired to, in which one is motivated to act on newly gained awareness (Böttger et al. 2017; Thrash and Elliot 2003, 2004).”
Happiness, inspiration and the fully functioning person: Separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the workplace (2012, background): “Inspiration is taken as a signal of appreciation and accommodation to an evocative stimulus, which usually motivates the individual to extend the qualities exemplified in the evocative stimulus (Thrash & Elliot, 2003 ).”
Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives (2010, background): “2006); subjective vitality (Ryan and Frederick 1997), which differs from affect in that it reflects a sense of energy and aliveness; what we called elevating experience, including inspiration (Haidt 2000; Thrash and Elliot 2003), awe (Keltner and Haidt 2003), and transcendence or sense of connection”
Influence of brand experience on customer inspiration and pro-environmental intention (2020, background): “Thrash and Elliot (2003) indicated that inspiration has three core characteristics, namely evocation, transcendence and approach characteristics.”