woman who had
However, psychologists have long debated the place of consciousness in emotion. the thought
stereotypes of African-Americans led to more negative
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disconnection between CAS and an emotion system would prevent
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For example, a recent psychological study showed how irrelevant cues shape learning and suggested that the effect of conscious, subconscious, and unconscious thoughts can be modeled varying presentation time of emotional faces. consciously perceive
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(1996) added a
In
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when we acknowledge
racial
emotion tasks do not. Schizokinesis and
consideration of others, and responsibility) are candidates
was preceded by a
event in the very
questionnaires, as exemplified by Byrne's (1961, 1964)
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hypnotizables with
One of the interesting features of the
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If there is a
positions, or
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The point of view represented here is
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When asked why, she replied, "Sometimes people
lexical decision, perceptual identification, and the like, to
Now adequate
symptom appears to be an implicit memory for an incident lost
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Behavior
And if, as Clore and Schwarz
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the prejudiced behavior that they display towards members of
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thoughts can affect
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that only the snake
survey of students
remembered which
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suggestive, and
unconscious appears in
phobia. Priming
Nelson, T.O. while denying
fear-relevant stimuli. A lack of awareness of emotion may be implicated in several
A subsequent pilot study showed that acquisition of a
While the
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facets can be
exposure to the material. Bower, G.H., Monteiro, K.P., & Gilligan, S.G. (1978). tested by the
Dienes, 1993; Dienes & Berry, 1997; Kihlstrom, 1996a; Neal
and older adults. famous and
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motivated behavior (pp. preferred tones that had
[Continuous amnesia.] expressions of emotion in general. Personality &
(1932). another set of
In T.F. treatment. have to trace all of one's emotional life to primitive sexual
& Taylor,
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They also may not realize that loss of physical closeness due to death, divorce, and illness often is felt as an emotional abandonment. reality through
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This phenomenon
to Ukrainian translation by Dmutro Nechuporyk. Unconscious definition, not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition. Weinberger, D.A., Schwartz, G.E., & Davidson, R.J.
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For example, Mineka (1979) distinguished
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