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Varieties of Social Cognition
Author(s) -
UHLMANN ERIC LUIS,
PIZARRO DAVID A.,
BLOOM PAUL
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00372.x
Subject(s) - unconsciousness , unconscious mind , psychology , cognition , feeling , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , consciousness , social cognition , social psychology , psychoanalysis , neuroscience , psychiatry
Recent work within psychology demonstrates that unconscious cognition plays a central role in the judgments and actions of individuals. We distinguish between two basic types unconscious social cognition: unconsciousness of the influences on judgments and actions, and unconscious of the mental states (i.e., attitudes and feelings) that give rise to judgments and actions. Influence unconsciousness is corroborated by strong empirical evidence, but unconscious states are difficult to verify. We discuss procedures aimed at providing conclusive evidence of state unconsciousness, and apply them to recent empirical findings.