1st Edition

The Automaticity of Everyday Life Advances in Social Cognition, Volume X

Edited By Robert S. Wyer, Jr. Copyright 1997
266 Pages
by Psychology Press

272 Pages
by Psychology Press

As Skinner argued so pointedly, the more we know about the situational causes of psychological phenomena, the less need we have for postulating internal conscious mediating processes to explain those phenomena. Now, as the purview of social psychology is precisely to discover those situational causes of thinking, feeling, and acting in the real or implied presence of other people, it is hard to... Read more
Contents: Preface. J.A. Bargh, The Automaticity of Everyday Life. M.R. Banaji, I.V. Blair, J. Glaser, Environments and Unconscious Processes. R.F. Baumeister, K.L. Sommer, Consciousness, Free Choice, and Automaticity. L. Berkowitz, Some Thoughts Extending Bargh's Argument. C.S. Carver, Associations to Automaticity. G. Clore, T. Ketelaar, Minding Our Emotions: On the Role of Automatic, Unconscious Affect. D. Cohen, Ifs and Thens in Cultural Psychology. W.L. Gardner, J.T. Cacioppo, Automaticity and Social Behavior: A Model, A Marriage and a Merger. C.D. Hardin, A.J. Rothman, Rendering Accessible Information Relevant: The Applicability of Everyday Life. G.D. Logan, The Automaticity of Academic Life: Unconscious Applications of an Implicit Theory. W. Mischel, Was the Cognitive Revolution Just a Detour on the Road to Behaviorism? On the Need to Reconcile Situational Control and Personal Control. E.R. Smith, Preconscious Automaticity in a Modular Connectionist System. T.K. Srull, The Vicissitudes of Social Behavior and Mental Life. J. Tzelgov, Automatic but Conscious: That Is How We Act Most of the Time. J.A. Bargh, Reply to Commentaries.

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Edited by Wyer, Jr., Robert S.