Unconscious (Psychology)

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The negative compatibility effect: unconscious inhibition influences reaction time and response selection.

In the negative compatibility effect (NCE) a masked prime arrow, pointing left or right, is followed by an unmasked (visible) target arrow. The task is to press the left or right switch corresponding to the visible arrow. Surprisingly, reaction time is ...
Stuart T Klapp, Leighton B Hinkley (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200206)
negative-compatibility-effect-unconscious-inhibition-influences.asp

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The self-organizing consciousness.

We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative ...
Pierre Perruchet, Annie Vinter (Behav Brain Sci, 200206)
self-organizing-consciousness.asp

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Reporting a dream accompanying an enactment in the transference situation.

Patients with pathological organisations of the personality present the analyst with considerable technical difficulties. One of these problems arises from the fact that, in such patients, dreams frequently are not being used for communication of ...
Heinz Weiss (Int J Psychoanal, 200206)
reporting-dream-accompanying-enactment-transference-situation.asp

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Memory biases in the anxiety disorders: current status.

Information-processing models of emotional disorders suggest that anxious individuals may be characterized by a memory bias for threat-relevant information. This paper reviews and synthesizes evidence for explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious) ...
Meredith E Coles, Richard G Heimberg (Clin Psychol Rev, 200205)
memory-biases-anxiety-disorders-current-status.asp

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Who killed Laius?: On Sophocles enigmatic message.

Using Laplanches basic conceptualisation of the role of the other in unconscious processes, the author proposes a reading of Sophocles tragedy, Oedipus the King, according to basic principles of dream interpretation. This reading corroborates ...
Beatriz Priel (Int J Psychoanal, 200204)
who-killed-laius-sophocles-enigmatic-message.asp

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Working with dreams in a bereavement therapy group.

There is ample theory and research about group therapy, dream work, and bereavement as separate subjects. However, there is little written specifically about utilizing dream work in bereavement therapy groups. Using the Foulksian group analytic model, ...
Eric Moss (Int J Group Psychother, 200204)
working-dreams-bereavement-therapy-group.asp

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Methodology in subliminal psychodynamic activation: basic questions remain unanswered.

Birgegard and Sohlberg recently implied that the interchange between them and Fudin in 1999 to 2000 resolved methodological issues in subliminal psychodynamic activation research. There remain, however, unresolved problems, both logical and empirical, ...
Robert Fudin (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
methodology-subliminal-psychodynamic-activation-basic-questions.asp

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Modification of a functional motor task by non-consciously perceived sensory stimuli.

In recent years it has been suggested that processing of visual information is divided between a ventral stream, responsible for object recognition and conscious processing of object properties, and a dorsal stream mediating automatic integration of ...
Stuart Fellows, Ruth Tabaza, Manfred Heumann, Werner Klotz, Odmar Neumann, Michael Schwarz, Johannes Noth, Rudolf Töpper (Neuroreport, 200204)
modification-functional-motor-task-non-consciously-perceived-sensory.asp

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The alienness of the unconscious: on Laplanches theory of seduction.

In this paper the author uses a clinical example as a focus for an exploration of his thesis that the parent is the other who implants his or her unconscious message into the child by means of seduction. As the other is alien, the unconscious of the ...
Michael Rotmann (J Anal Psychol, 200204)
alienness-unconscious-laplanche-s-theory-seduction.asp

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Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore: implicit egotism and major life decisions.

Because most people possess positive associations about themselves, most people prefer things that are connected to the self (e.g., the letters in ones name). The authors refer to such preferences as implicit egotism. Ten studies assessed the role of ...
Brett W Pelham, Matthew C Mirenberg, John T Jones (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200204)
why-susie-sells-seashells-seashore-implicit-egotism-major-life.asp