Automatyzmy dnia powszedniego
John A. Bargh
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Rocznik: 1999 Tom: 5 Numer: 3
Strony: 209-256
Since 1960's the explanations of social cognition phenomena based upon the concept of free will and conscious choice have been continuously losing their validity. Massive evidence supports the thesis that some situations may provoke psychological effects without any conscious information processing. In this article a detailed overview of automatic psychological effects on perceptional, evaluational and motivational processes is presented. As both social psychology and automaticity theory and research, are concerned with phenomena that occur whenever certain situational features or factors are in place so the author claims that social psychological effects must be essentially automatic in nature.