highly significantp < 0.001
None of these announced activities would actually take place, and while participants prepared for them they were asked to take part in an allegedly separate experiment on economic decisions (see Methods). Results Validation of the motive inductions A linear mixed effect model on change in motivational and affective ratings (i.e., difference scores between post-induction and pre-induction ratings) resulted in a highly significant interaction between the induction and the motive/affective state (F (16,1536) = 4.59, p < 0.001), suggesting that the latter were differentially affected by the inductions (Fig. 1 , panel B).