Think different: the merits of unconscious thought in preference development and decision making.

By A. Dijksterhuis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

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Entrepreneurship at Country Level: Economic and Non-Economic Determinants (2006, result): “Unconscious thought in preference development and decision making (Dijksterhuis, 2004), which has been shown by modern psychology to be relatively effective for complex decision problems, is also compatible with the framework.”
Multiple Tasks' and Multiple Goals' Effect on Creativity: Forced Incubation or Just a Distraction? (2008, background): “…to work, to go back to the task later with a fresh mind, or to stimulate incubation, participants may have to overcome their focused approach (Finke, Ward, & Smith, 1992) and consciously stop thinking about the task at hand and be involved and “focused” on something else (Dijksterhuis, 2004).”
Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Structure of Implicit Bias (2016, background): “The situation is even more perplexing because social psychologists have been uncovering logical unconscious processes ever since at least the heyday of Festinger, and this tradition has continued through Dijksterhuis and the theorists cited above.24 In fact, one of the must frequently used paradigms”
Misconceptions About Intuition (2010, background): “Participants selecting the optimum apartment in unconscious thought experiments (Dijksterhuis, 2004), for example, were encouraged to put the problem aside completely, not to make an educated guess that would require a shortcut deliberation.”
Deciding versus Reacting: Conceptions of Moral Judgment and the Reason-Affect Debate (2007, methodology): “In addition, other researchers have demonstrated that some judgments and decisions appear to sidestep conscious deliberation entirely (e.g., Bargh, 1994; Greenwald & Banaji, 1995; Dijksterhuis, 2004).”
Which should you use, intuition or logic? Cultural differences in injunctive norms about reasoning (2008, background): “Moreover, recent studies have suggested that, in complex situations, intuitive, holistic thinking has a distinct advantage over conscious, analytic reasoning (Dijksterhuis, 2004; Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006; Dijksterhuis & van Olden, 2006; Dijksterhuis, Bos, Nordgren, & van Baaren, 2006).”
Demystifying Intuition: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Does It (2010, background): “Dijksterhuis (2004) and Reber (1993) found that experiential/intuitive processing can more effectively solve some kinds of complex problems than rational/analytic processing.”
A Meta-Analysis on Unconscious Thought Effects (2011, methodology): “, & Dijksterhuis, A. (2010). The unconscious thought effect in clinical decision making: An example in diagnosis.”
New findings on unconscious versus conscious thought in decision making: additional empirical data and meta-analysis. (2008, methodology): “In this context it is important to point out that in the sequence of experiments carried out by Dijksterhuis, only the first two to be published (Dijksterhuis, 2004, Experiments 1 and 2) were exclusively directed at establishing differences between decision success under unconscious versus…”
Contemplation and Conversation: Subtle Influences on Moral Decision Making (2012, background): “Studies could investigate how initial conversations and first decisions influence subsequent decisions; whether moral emotions are necessary, and how contemplation and conversation may activate them; the limits of contemplative decision processes; how contemplation and conversation combine; the opti”
The Effect of Stating Expectations on Customer Satisfaction and Shopping Experience (2005, background): “In other instances, expectations may be ill-defined, in which case asking customers to state expectations might help formulate or even create them (e.g., Bettman, Luce, and Payne 1998; Schwarz and Bohner 2001).”
Intuition in Management Research: A Historical Review (2012, neutral): “…decision making (Koele and Dietvorst, 2009), frequency estimation (Haberstroth, 2008), intuition and fast and frugal heuristics (Glöckner, 2008), different types of intuition (Glöckner and Witteman, 2010), and the relative utilities of conscious versus non-conscious processing (Dijksterhuis, 2004).”
9 Creativity in Organizations (2007, background): “In particular, unconscious-thought theory (UTT) and supportive empirical evidence suggests that active and beneficial “thinking” takes place during incubation, and that this kind of thinking might not even be possible when one remains consciously focused on a task (eg, Dijksterhuis, 2004 ; Dijkste”
On the benefits of thinking unconsciously: Unconscious thought can increase post-choice satisfaction (2006, methodology): “As we include a conscious thought condition as in the study by Wilson et al. (1993), in the current experiment we run three conditions (as in Dijksterhuis, 2004 ).”
Fitting decisions: Mood and intuitive versus deliberative decision strategies (2008, background): “This is surprising, given the centrality of the distinction between deciding based on feelings versus analytical thought in psychology and decision-making research (e.g., Dijksterhuis, 2004; Wilson, 2002).”