The effects of being conscious: looking for the right evidence.
Huang & Bargh's (H&B's) general picture might underestimate the role played by conscious self and overestimate the behavioral inconsistencies at the personal level. This follows from how they delimit the goals under consideration: Their theses that goals are not consciously selected and that the conscious self is involved just in post hoc rationalization should also be tested against concrete and long-term goals.
Department of Human Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy. mazzonem@unict.it http://unict.academia.edu/MarcoMazzone.
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