Is the unconscious, if it exists, a superior decision maker?

Authors
Publication date 2014
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume | Issue number 37 | 1
Pages (from-to) 32-33
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Newell & Shanks (N&S) show that there is no convincing evidence that processes assumed to be unconscious and superior are indeed unconscious. We take their argument one step further by showing that there is also no convincing evidence that these processes are superior. We review alternative paradigms that may provide more convincing tests of the superiority of (presumed) unconscious processes.
Document type Article
Note 402286: 156055_402286.pdf: Comment by Huizenga et al. only. 402286 - full: 156056_402286 - full.pdf: Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2014). Unconscious influences on decision making: a critical review + all open peer commentary. Comment on Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2014). Unconscious influences on decision making: a critical review. --- Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37 --- (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X12003214
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13000769
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