Multifaceted Nature of Intrinsic Motivation: The Theory of 16 Basic Desires

By Steven P. Reiss. 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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From the functions of music to music preference (2009, background): “Our daily lives are thought to be driven by certain needs that lead us to a state of subjective well-being or hedonism (see, e.g., Reiss, 2004), and music is just one thing that brings us a bit closer to this end every day.”
Taking "Fun and Games" Seriously: Proposing the Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM) (2012, background): “However, relying solely on joy to represent intrinsic motivation exaggerates the role of joy while ignoring other aspects of intrinsic motivation (e.g., Choi & Kim, 2004; Hsu, Chiu, & Ju, 2004; Hsu & Lu, 2004; Hsu & Lu, 2007; Jegers, 2007; Reiss, 2004; Sweetser & Wyeth, 2005).”
Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing network effects on self-censorship of political expressions in social network sites (2015, background): “The foundational motives beneath social conformity intention resonate with what Reiss (2004) categorizes as intrinsic motivations including the “desire for peer companionship” and “desire for approval.””
Dark Patterns at Scale (2019, background): “Lastly, Lewis [57] linked each of the dark patterns described in his book to Reiss’s Desires, a popular theory of psychological motivators [72].”
The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, unknown): “Furthermore, even if it is apparent that acting on one’s curiosity will lead to immediate pain and punishment, and no foreseeable future rewards, people willingly do so – satisfying curiosity is a powerful, basic human motive (Hsee & Ruan, 2016; Reiss, 2004).”
The Lens of Intrinsic Skill Atoms: A Method for Gameful Design (2015, methodology): “Gears and Braun (2013) merged object-oriented systems analysis and design with SDT and the theory of 16 basic desires (Reiss, 2004) into a business gamification process.”
Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories (2018, background): “Finally, the annotations encompass both formal labels from multiple theories of psychology (Maslow, 1943; Reiss, 2004; Plutchik, 1980) as well as open text descriptions of motivations and emotions, providing a comprehensive mapping between open text explanations and label categories (e.”
Crowdfunding (2013, methodology): “While we categorize motivations and deterrents as distinct from each other, in reality, they are interrelated [Reiss 2004].”
What Moves Us? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reasons for Traveling (2015, background): “Reiss (2004) offers a list of 16 basic desires into which most intrinsic motivations can be classified: curiosity, independence, power, status, social contact, vengeance, honor, idealism, physical exercise, romance, family, order, eating, acceptance, tranquility, and saving.”
Why Create Value for Others? An Exploration of Social Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “Comments from social entrepreneurs in the study also reflect nurturance, the need to care for, encourage, and foster the development of familiar others (Murray 1938; Reiss 2004).”
Parental Autonomy Support and Student Learning Goals: A Preliminary Examination of an Intrinsic Motivation Intervention (2011, background): “Reiss (2004) has also provided evidence that the idealistic or altruistic desire to improve society is a universally important intrinsic goal.”
Word of mouth and interpersonal communication: A review and directions for future research (2014, background): “People want to be socially accepted (Reiss, 2004), but while close others already know you quite well, weak ties do not.”
Commonsense Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding: A Survey of Benchmarks, Resources, and Approaches (2019, background): “…motivational and emotional annotations, the dataset introduces three classification tasks: one for inferring the basic human needs theorized by Maslow (1943), one for inferring the human motives theorized by Reiss (2004), and one for inferring the human emotions theorized by Plutchik (1980).”
SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents (2023, background): “This dimension is motivated by the fact that curiosity, i.e., the desire to desire to know or learn, is a fundamental human trait (Reiss, 2004; Maslow, 1943).”