Hassin recently proposed the "Yes It Can" (YIC) principle to describe the division of labor between conscious and unconscious processes in human cognition. According to this principle, unconscious processes can carry out every fundamental high-level cognitive function that conscious processes can perform. In our commentary, we argue that the author presents an overly idealized review of the lit...

This paper uses the Process Dissociation Procedure to explore whether people can acquire unconscious knowledge in the serial reaction time task [Destrebecqz, A., & Cleeremans, A. (2001). Can sequence learning be implicit? New evidence with the Process Dissociation Procedure. Psychonomic Bulletin &Review, 8, 343-350; Wilkinson, L., & Shanks, D. R. (2004). Intentional control and implicit sequenc...

This paper explores the interplay between unconscious, conscious, and metaconscious processes in social cognition. We distinguish among mental states that are (i) genuinely unaware, (ii) aware, but lack meta-awareness, and (iii) meta-aware—internally articulated as states of the perceiver. We review key studies from our own and related research programmes to highlight this theoretical framework...

Unconscious reward facilitates motion perceptual learning Xin Xue, Xiaolin Zhou & Sheng Li a Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China b Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, China c PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China d Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, B...

What exactly is “nonconscious consumer psychology?” We use the term to describe a category of consumption behavior that is driven by processes that occur outside a consumer's conscious awareness. In other words, individuals engage in consumptionrelated cognition, motivation, decision making, emotion, and behavior without recognizing the role that nonconscious processes played in shaping them. A...

Our knowledge grows as we integrate events experienced at different points in time. We may or may not become aware of events, their integration, and their impact on our knowledge and decisions. But can we mentally integrate two events, if they are experienced at different time points and at different levels of consciousness? In this study, an event consisted of the presentation of two unrelated...

Dynamic psychology is based on a concept of mind that is opposed to mechanism and the cause/effect relationship; indeed, it is essentially phenomenological and is founded on a system of principles articulated according to the mind/body itinerary. As such, dynamic psychology is based on the dynamics of the unconscious, the principle of field in terms of conflict and communication, the superficia...

The article attempts to analyze the causes of Taras Szevchenko’s loneliness in his personal life through scientific apparatus Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology. dynamics processes that took place inner spheres poet’s soul, struggling throughout with trauma orphanhood, shows it was mother complex largely conditioned complicated relations women. Exploring various aspects intimate biography...

In the Terry Lectures given at Yale University in 1937, a demonstration is proposed of the persective from which medical psychology views religion. Religion must be taken into account by psychologists, since it represents one of the most ancient and universal expressions of the human mind; but it is felt that the approach of psychology must be scientific, empirical and phenomenological rather t...