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Unconscious processes, such as intuition, function in ways that automatically and rapidly synthesise a range of complex information, and this gives an advantage over thinking deliberately.
- Magda Osman
Sep 9, 2013 · Since the fall of Behaviorism, a de facto distinction has been made between conscious and unconscious processing in every field of inquiry of psychology and neuroscience, though, again, often without mention of the term “consciousness.”
This chapter considers the nature and origins of behavioral intentions, the explicit and implicit beliefs and attitudes on which they are based, as well as their causal effects on behavior. Keywords: intention, explicit attitudes, implicit attitudes, behavioral, social psychology.
- Unconscious Manipulation
- Unconscious Decision-Making?
- Unconscious Bias
- Nudge
Another way of approaching the idea of whether we are ultimately ruled by our unconscious is to look at instances where we might expect unconscious manipulation to occur. In fact, in my researchI asked people what those were. The most common example was marketing and advertising. This may not be a surprise given that we often come across terms such...
But do we make decisions without consciously thinking? To find out, researchers have investigated three areas: the extent to which our choices are based on unconscious processes, whether those unconscious processes are fundamentally biased (for example, sexist or racist), and what, if anything, can be done to improve our biased, unconscious decisio...
But what about bias in decision-making? A highly instructive study showed that, through the use of a now widely adopted technique called the “implicit association test (IAT)”, people harbour unconscious, biased attitudes towards other people (such as racial or gender discrimination). It also suggested that these attitudes can actually motivate bias...
There have also been efforts to try to improve the way we make decisions in our day-to-day lives (such as healthy eating, saving for retirement) where our unconscious biased processes might limit our ability to do so. Here the work by Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein has been revolutionary. The basic idea behind their work comes from...
- Magda Osman
Dec 21, 2016 · New approaches and advances in social cognition research over the past few decades suggest that many aspects of our decision-making, thoughts, and behaviors are, in fact, strongly influenced by unconscious processes (see Bargh and Morsella 2008, for an expanded discussion).
Personality can be defined as about studying characteristic patterns of behaviors and mental processes (thoughts, feelings and motivations) that are relatively stable across time and can be used to differentiate among individuals (Baumert et al., 2017).
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Originating in the work of Sigmund Freud, the psychodynamic perspective emphasizes unconscious psychological processes (for example, wishes and fears of which we’re not fully aware), and contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality.
