Intrinsic motivation – Steven Reiss

Intrinsic motivation is much better described by Reiss’s classification:

• Acceptance – the need for approval
• Curiosity – the need to think
• Eating – the need for food
• Family – the need to raise children
• Honor – the need to be loyal to a moral code
• Idealism – the need for social justice
• Independence – the need for individuality or autonomy
• Order – the need for organized, stable, predictable environments
• Physical exercise – the need to exercise muscles
• Power – the need for influence of will
• Romance – the need for sex and courtship
• Saving - the need to collect
• Social contact – the need for friends (peer relationships)
• Status – the need for social standing/importance
• Tranquility – the need to be safe
• Vengeance – the need to get even

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