ABSTRACT
The role motivation theories explicitly incorporate role requirements and motive patterns that are not available to a person’s consciousness. Certainly they do not preclude conscious information, but this is presumed to be only the tip of the iceberg. Within psychology a major way of getting at and measuring unconscious material has been to use projective techniques of some kind. Role motivation theory has in large part adopted this approach. How and why this occurred is the subject of the first part of this chapter.
