What we (don't) know about what we know.
The hypothesis of unconscious influences on complex behavior is observationally equivalent to the dissociability of cognition and metacognition (reportability). The target article convincingly argues that evidence for unconscious influence is limited by the quality of the metacognitive measure used. However, it understates the empirical evidence for unconscious influences and overlooks considerations of cognitive architecture that make cognitive/metacognitive dissociations likely.
Department of Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711 Shlomi.Sher@pomona.edu.
Shlomi
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Sher
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109 pwinkielman@ucsd.edu http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/
Piotr
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Winkielman
D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology