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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.545928
关键词
mind wandering; task-unrelated thought; Unconscious Thought Effect; consciousness; unconscious thought advantage
资金
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [RU1996/1-1]
- publication fonts of the BadenWurttemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts
- Heidelberg University
This study examined the Unconscious Thought Theory through analyzing data from multiple experiments. The findings suggested that less problem deliberation is associated with better performance in certain situations. Additionally, the study found that explicit thought awareness diminishes the Unconscious Thought Effect, which is an interesting discovery.
Unconscious Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis, 2004) states that thinking about a complex problem unconsciously can result in better solutions than conscious deliberation. We take a fresh look at the cognitive processes underlying unconscious thought by analyzing data of 822 participants who worked on a complex apartment-evaluation task in three experiments. This task's information-presentation and evaluation parts were separated by different kinds of filler-interval activities, which corresponded to standard conscious-thought and unconscious-thought manipulations. Employing experience-sampling methods, we obtained thought reports during and after filler-interval engagement. Evidence concerning the existence of the Unconscious Thought Effect was mixed, with such an effect being present in the first two experiments only. In these experiments, we further found less problem deliberation to be associated with better performance on the apartment task. Interestingly, this benefit disappeared when we probed participants' thoughts during the filler interval. We suggested that explicit thought awareness diminishes the Unconscious Thought Effect.
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