Principles of mental physiology

By W. Carpenter. 2009

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Citations in the corpus

Beyond the Perception-Behavior Link: The Ubiquitous Utility and Motivational Moderators of Nonconscious Mimicry. (2005, unknown): “" He expanded upon Carpenter's (1874) principle of ideomotor action, the notion that merely thinking about doing something automatically makes one more likely to actually do it. James argued for the unintentional and unconscious nature of this effect, and further posited a passive, cognitive mechani”
Moral Schemas and Tacit Judgement or How the Defining Issues Test is Supported by Cognitive Science (2002, unknown): “From the outset there was concern that the DIT did not really measure moral judgement structures because it did not ask respondents to produce an answer in their own words and because it hopelessly wedded content with structure.”
Beyond behaviorism: on the automaticity of higher mental processes. (2000, unknown): “For example, the physiologist William Carpenter (1888) argued that merely thinking about a given behavior is sufficient to create the tendency to engage in that behavior.”
The perception–behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior. (2001, unknown): “The principle of ideomotor action, introduced long ago (Carpenter, 1874; James, 1890; Jastrow, 1908), states that merely thinking about an action leads automatically to the tendency to engage in this action. As James (1890, p. 522) defined it "Whenever movement follows unhesitatingly and immediately”