Automatic processes, emotions, and the causal field.
Newell & Shanks (N&S) provide a welcome examination of many claims about unconscious influences on decision making. I emphasize two issues that they do not consider fully: the roles of automatic processes and emotions. I further raise an important conceptual problem in assigning causes to potential unconscious influences. Which "causal field" is relevant: that of the investigator or the experimental participants?
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics & Business, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. robin.hogarth@upf.edu.
Robin M
RM
Hogarth
D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology