Over the past two decades, a new picture of the cognitive unconscious has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. According to this picture, unconscious processes seem to be capable of doing many things that were thought to require intention, deliberation, and conscious awareness. Moreover, they accomplish these things without the conflict and drama of the psychoanalytic unconscious. These processes range from complex information processing, through goal pursuit and emotions, to cognitive control and self-regulation. This collection of 20 original chapters by leading researchers examines the cognitive unconscious from social, cognitive, and neuroscientific viewpoints, presenting some of the most important developments at the heart of this new picture of the unconscious. The volume, the first book in the new Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience series, will be an important resource on the cognitive unconscious for researchers in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
Author(s): Ran R. Hassin, James S. Uleman, John A. Bargh
Series: Oxford Series in Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 608
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Introduction: Becoming Aware of the New Unconscious......Page 17
PART I Fundamental Questions......Page 31
1. Who Is the Controller of Controlled Processes?......Page 33
2. Bypassing the Will: Toward Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior......Page 51
PART II Basic Mechanisms......Page 73
3. The Interaction of Emotion and Cognition: The Relation Between the Human Amygdala and Cognitive Awareness......Page 75
4. The Power of the Subliminal: On Subliminal Persuasion and Other Potential Applications......Page 91
5. Nonintentional Similarity Processing......Page 121
6. The Mechanics of Imagination: Automaticity and Control in Counterfactual Thinking......Page 152
7. Compensatory Automaticity: Unconscious Volition Is Not an Oxymoron......Page 185
8. Nonconscious Control and Implicit Working Memory......Page 210
PART III Intention and Theory of Mind......Page 237
9. Folk Theory of Mind: Conceptual Foundations of Human Social Cognition......Page 239
10. The Development of the Intention Concept: From the Observable World to the Unobservable Mind......Page 270
11. Theory of Mind: Conscious Attribution and Spontaneous Trait Inference......Page 291
PART IV Perceiving and Engaging Others......Page 321
12. The Glimpsed World: Unintended Communication and Unintended Perception......Page 323
13. Beyond the Perception-Behavior Link: The Ubiquitous Utility and Motivational Moderators of Nonconscious Mimicry......Page 348
14. Implicit Impressions......Page 376
15. Attitudes as Accessibility Bias: Dissociating Automatic and Controlled Processes......Page 407
16. The Unconscious Relational Self......Page 435
PART V Self-Regulation......Page 497
17. The Control of the Unwanted......Page 499
18. Motivational Sources of Unintended Thought: Irrational Intrusions or Side Effects of Rational Strategies?......Page 530
19. Going Beyond the Motivation Given: Self-Control and Situational Control Over Behavior......Page 551
Index......Page 9
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