The Social Unconscious

Social Motivation Conscious and Unconscious Processes

published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge

Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition

Unconscious Evaluation of Faces on Social Dimensions

It has been proposed that two major axes, dominance and trustworthiness, characterize the social dimensions of face evaluation. Whether evaluation of faces on these social dimensions is restricted to conscious appraisal or happens at a preconscious level is unknown. Here we provide behavioral evidence that such preconscious evaluations exist and that they are likely to be interpretations arisin...

Unconscious discrimination of social cues from eye whites in infants.

Human eyes serve two key functions in face-to-face social interactions: they provide cues about a person's emotional state and attentional focus (gaze direction). Both functions critically rely on the morphologically unique human sclera and have been shown to operate even in the absence of conscious awareness in adults. However, it is not known whether the ability to respond to social cues from...

pursuing the unconscious

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