GLOSSARY
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Iktsuarpok
Pronounced, “eek-soow-uhr-pohk”. An Inuit word to describe the feeling of anticipation and waiting when visitors are due to arrive.
Implementation Intention
The act of equipping one’s goal with an ‘if-then plan.’ This plan specifies when, where, and how you will act to increase the chances that you will reach your goal.
Imposter Phenomenon/Imposter Syndrome
An experience that occurs among individuals who are unable to internalize and accept their successes, instead attributing their accomplishments to luck rather than to ability. Individuals with imposter phenomenon are often fearful that others will eventually unmask them as frauds.
Impulsive Aggression
A maladaptive form of aggression characterized as a reactive, overt, and explosive response to perceived provocation. It can also refer to the sudden and unpredictable use of force or violence as a result of extreme negative emotions like (...)
Inspiration
A construct characterized by evocation, motivation, and transcendence. Specifically, inspiration implies motivation, which is to say that it involves the energization and direction of behaviour; is evoked rather than initiated directly through an act of (...)
Inspirational Leadership
One of the factors in the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and one of the four components of transformational leadership theory (the other three being intellectual stimulation, idealized influence and (...)
Insular Cortex
An inverted triangular shaped lobe hidden beneath the frontal, temporal & parietal lobe junction, primarily involved in taste, disgust, interoceptive sensation and awareness (e.g. subjective feelings).
Interest
A motivational variable that includes both affective and cognitive as separate but interacting systems. The affective component of interest describes positive emotions accompanying engagement, whereas the cognitive component refers to (...)
Intergroup Emotion Theory (IET)
The idea that when social identity is salient, group-based appraisals elicit specific emotions and action tendencies toward out-groups. That is, when group membership is salient and situations are appraised in terms of their consequences for the (...)
