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Automatic processes, emotions, and the causal field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2014

Robin M. Hogarth
Robin M. Hogarth*
Affiliation:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics & Business, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. [email protected]
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Abstract

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?

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 31 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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