Beyond behaviorism: on the automaticity of higher mental processes.

By John A. Bargh, Melissa Ferguson. Psychological bulletin, 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

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An exploratory field experiment of the effect of subconscious and conscious goals on employee performance (2009, background): “As noted earlier, Bargh and Ferguson (2000) have argued that subconscious goals have the same effect on behavior as conscious goals.”
Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. (2011, background): “…psychology has increasingly pursued the study of cognitive and affective processes that are not accessible to conscious awareness and control (Bargh & Ferguson, 2000), research in psi has followed the same path, moving from explicit forced-choice guessing tasks to experiments using…”
Will the Real Moral Judgment Please Stand Up? (2009, background): “Bargh and colleagues (e.g., Bargh and Ferguson 2000; Bargh et al. 2001) have argued that automatic goal pursuit (“the nonconscious activation and operation of goals” Bargh et al. 2001 p. 1014) occurs when a goal has been consciously selected in a particular situation.”
Placing the face in context: cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion. (2008, result): “In other words, the background figures’ facial expressions acted as a prime for the judgment of the target figure, and in general, the results showed assimilation effects ( Bargh & Ferguson, 2001; Higgins, 1989) instead of contrast effects.”
Biological processes in prevention and intervention: The promotion of self-regulation as a means of preventing school failure (2008, positive): “An important complement to the automaticity of emotional and behavioral reactivity (Bargh & Ferguson, 2000) is found in the development of cognitive control abilities, particularly the control of attention, that emerges in the toddler period and allows for the modulation of arousal and for…”
New developments in and directions for goal-setting research. (2007, background): “Bargh and Ferguson (2000), in their review of the social psychology literature, concluded that subconscious goals produce the same outcomes as conscious goals, and are affected by the same moderators.”
Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. (2004, background): “Recent theorizing suggests that both are very likely triggered by environmental stimuli (Bargh & Ferguson, 2000).”
The Grateful Workplace: A Multilevel Model of Gratitude in Organizations (2017, background): “Especially when the available information is ambiguous, schemas enable quick responses in a given domain through default strategies and behavior (Bargh & Ferguson, 2000).”
Psychological Antecedents of Risk-Taking Behavior in Construction (2014, background): “Our clothing was ordinary to avoid subconscious influences on participants’ behaviors (Bargh and Ferguson 2000, Simon et al. 1997).”
School readiness. Integrating cognition and emotion in a neurobiological conceptualization of children's functioning at school entry. (2002, neutral): “113 February 2002 ● American Psychologist The influence of subcognitive processing of emotional information on higher order mental processes of expectancy and engagement has received far less attention in the study of self-regulation (Bargh & Ferguson, 2000; Kuhl, 2000).”
Organizations Behaving Badly: When Are Discreditable Actions Likely to Damage Organizational Reputation? (2010, background): “The many stakeholders who have low motivation to actively seek information about a specific organization are not processing media reports about it in a highly attentive manner (Bargh and Ferguson, 2002).”