title: Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious.
abstract: Cognitive-experiential self-theory integrates the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious by assuming the existence of two parallel, interacting modes of information processing: a rational system and an emotionally driven experiential system. Support for the theory is provided by the convergence of a wide variety of theoretical positions on two similar processing modes; by real-life phenomena--such as conflicts between the heart and the head; the appeal of concrete, imagistic, and narrative representations; superstitious thinking; and the ubiquity of religion throughout recorded history--and by laboratory research, including the prediction of new phenomena in heuristic reasoning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004532:Ego; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology