[alicebot-general] Steven Reiss' sixteen categories of motivation

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

I would reduce your 12 to my 9.

On 5/29/06, Helio Perroni Filho <xperroni at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The [wta-talk] ML has been very active on psychology
> articles these days, and interesting references for
> bot designers keep popping up. The last one is Steven
> Reiss' 16 basic motivations [1]:
>


1 * order;
1 * idealism;
2 * romance;
2 * acceptance;
2 * family;
3 * social contact;
3 * status;
4 * independence;
5 * saving;
5 * curiosity;
6 * honor;
7 * physical exercise;
8 * power;
8 * vengeance;
9 * eating;
9 * tranquility.