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Maybe it helps to be conscious, after all

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2014

Roy F. Baumeister ,
Kathleen D. Vohs  and
E. J. Masicampo
Roy F. Baumeister
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306–4301. [email protected]://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html
Kathleen D. Vohs
Affiliation:
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. [email protected]://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty-research/vohsx005/Kathleen_D_Vohs.aspx
E. J. Masicampo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. [email protected]://www.wfu.edu/~masicaej/
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Abstract

Psychologists debate whether consciousness or unconsciousness is most central to human behavior. Our goal, instead, is to figure out how they work together. Conscious processes are partly produced by unconscious processes, and much information processing occurs outside of awareness. Yet, consciousness has advantages that the unconscious does not. We discuss how consciousness causes behavior, drawing conclusions from large-scale literature reviews.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 20 - 21
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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