Restrictive and dynamic conceptions of the unconscious: perspectives from moral and developmental psychology.
Newell & Shanks' (N&S's) conceptualization of the unconscious is overly restrictive, compared to standard social psychological accounts. The dichotomy between distal and proximal cues is a weak point in their argument and does not circumvent the existence of unconscious influences on decision making. Evidence from moral and developmental psychology indicates that decision making results from a dynamic mixture of conscious and unconscious processes.
Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Newton St. Loe, Bath BA2 9BN, United Kingdom. g.ingram@bathspa.ac.uk https://sites.google.com/a/bathspa.ac.uk/gordon-ingram/
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Jagiellonian University, Kraków 31-005, Poland. karolina.prochownik@uj.edu.pl.
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D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology