This week you read a number of articles that used motive imagery as a way to profile leaders and groups.

• Discuss motivation and whether or not motivation is an important element when applying a personality profile to specific or hypothetical situation.

Required Readings:

Post, Jerrold. ed. 2005. The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. – Chapter 7 and pages 306-312; 370-374. (34 pages)

Winter, David G., and Brooke E. Sweet. 2009. “Measuring Implicit British Perceptions of German Intentions in 1938-1939.” Political Psychology 30, no.6 (December): 839-861. (22 pages)

Schmitt, David P. and David G. Winter. 1998. “Measuring the Motives of Soviet Leadership and Soviet Society: Congruence Reflected or Congruence Created?” Leadership Quarterly 9, no.3 (Fall): 293-307. (14 pages)

Smith, Allison G. 2008. “The Implicit Motives of Terrorist Groups: How the Needs for Affiliation and Power Translate into Death and Destruction.” Political Psychology 29, no. 1 (February): 55-75. (20 pages)

Suedfeld, Peter, Ryan W. Cross, Jelena Brcic. 2011. “Two Years of Ups and Downs: Barack Obama’s Patterns of Integrative Complexity, Motive Imagery, and Values.” Political Psychology 32, no. 6: 1007-1033. (26 pages)

Recommended Optional Readings:

Peterson, Bill E., David G. Winter, and Richard Doty. 1994. “Laboratory Tests of a Motivational-Perceptual Model of Conflict Escalation.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 38, no. 4 (December): 719-748.

McClelland, D.C. and R.E. Boyatzis. 1982. “Leadership, Motive Pattern and Long-Term Success in Management.” Journal of Applied Psychology 67: 737-743.

Smith, Allison G., Peter Suedfeld, Lucian G. Conway III, and David G. Winter. 2008. “The Language of Violence: Distinguishing Terrorist From Nonterrorist Groups by Thematic Content Analysis.” Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 1. no. 2 (July): 142-163.

Smith, Charles P., John W. Atkinson, David C. McClelland, and Joseph, Veroff, eds. (1992). Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press:

“Motivational Configurations,” pp.87-99; “The Achievement Motive,” pp.143-152; “A Scoring Manual for the Achievement Motive,” pp.153-178; “The Affiliation Motive,” pp.205-210; “A Scoring Manual for the Affiliation Motive,” pp.211-223; “Power Motivation Revisited,” pp.301-310; “A Revised Scoring System for the Power Motive,” pp.311-324; “Conceptual/Integrative Complexity,” pp.393-400; “The Conceptual/Integrative Complexity Scoring Manual,” pp.401-418.

Winter, David G. 1987. “Leader Appeal, Leader Performance, and the Motive Profiles of Leaders and Followers: A Study of American Presidents and Elections.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52: 196-202.

Winter, David G. 2003. “Asymmetrical Perceptions of Power in Crises: A Comparison of 1914 and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Journal of Peace Research 40, no. 3 (May): 251-270.

Winter, David G. 2005. “Things I’ve Learned About Personality from Studying Political Leaders at a Distance.” Journal of Personality 73, no.3 (June): 557-584.

Winter, David G., Abigail J. Stewart, Oliver P. John, Eva C. Klohnen. 1998. “Traits and Motives: Toward and Integration of Two Traditions in Personality Research.” Psychological Review 105, no. 2: 230-250.

Winter, David G. and Brook E. Sweet. 2009. “Measuring Implicit British Perceptions of German Intentions in 1938-1939.” Political Psychology 30, no. 6: 839-861.

Winter, David G. and Leslie A Carlson. 1988. “Using Motive Scores in the Psychobiographical Study of an Individual: The Case of Richard Nixon.” Journal of Personality 56, no. 1 (March): 75-103.

Winter, David G., Margaret G. Hermann, Walter Weintraub, and Stephen G. Walker. 1991. “The Personalities of Bush and Gorbachev Measured at a Distance: Procedures, Portraits, and Policy.” Political Psychology 12, no. 2 (June): 215-245.

Winter, David G., Margaret G. Hermann, Walter Weintraub, and Stephen G. Walker. 1991. “The Personalities of Bush and Gorbachev Measured at a Distance: Follow-up on Predictions.” Political Psychology 12, no. 3 (September): 457-464.

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