A meta-analysis assessed the behavioral impact of and psychological processes associated
with presenting words connected to an action or a goal representation. The average and …

In this article, literature from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and social cognition is
integrated to discuss the relation between goals, attention, and consciousness. Goals are …

Over the past two decades, there has been an upsurge in theoretical frameworks alluding to
the existence of two different processing systems that supposedly operate according to …

Understanding the division of labor between conscious processes and unconscious ones is
central to our understanding of the human mind. This article proposes a simple “Yes It …

Complex dynamic control (CDC) tasks are a type of problem-solving environment used for
examining many cognitive activities (eg, attention, control, decision making, hypothesis …

Clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists are traditionally taught that cognition is
mediated by the cortex and that subcortical brain regions mediate the coordination of …

In the current studies, we tested the prediction that learning of novel patterns of association
would be enhanced in response to unrelated meaning threats. This prediction derives from …

Five experiments demonstrate that brands cause priming effects (ie, behavioral effects
consistent with those implied by the brand), whereas slogans cause reverse priming effects …

We assume that a state of distrust is the mental system's signal that the environment is not
normal—things may not be as they appear. Hence, individuals sense they should be on …

Arguing from the nature of goal pursuit and from the economy of mental resources this article
suggests that automatic goal pursuit, much like its controlled counterpart, may be flexible …