A Theory of Unconscious Thought

By A. Dijksterhuis, L. Nordgren. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2006

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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The Relevance and Viability of Subconscious Goals in the Workplace (2010, background): “As Eden and Sulimani (2002) acknowledged, few management consultants are likely to base their relations with clients on an intervention that deceives people no matter how worthwhile the performance outcomes.”
The Right Brain Implicit Self Lies at the Core of Psychoanalysis (2011, background): “Writing in the psychological literature, Dijksterhuis and Nordgren (2006) described intuitions that are the result of “thorough unconscious thought” and reported, “immediate intuitions that were good were made by experts (perhaps they have so much knowledge that they can think unconsciously very q”
The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious (2011, background): “According to the “theory of unconscious thought” (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006; see also Dijksterhuis, Bos, Nordgren, & van Baaren, 2006), conscious thought, due to its precision (it can strictly follow selfgenerated rules), may lead to good choices in simple matters, but to worse choices in more…”
Foxhole atheism, revisited: The effects of mortality salience on explicit and implicit religious belief (2012, background): “Moreover, recent dual-process models of cognition (e.g., Bargh & Chartrand, 1999; Chen & Chaiken, 1999; Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006; Nosek, 2007) propose that implicit cognitive associations and processes are empirically and functionally dissociable from explicit attitudes or conscious…”
The Devil Is in the Deliberation: Thinking Too Much Reduces Preference Consistency (2009, background): “Likewise, research on the “deliberation-without-attention” effect has found, both in the laboratory as well as among actual shoppers, that purchases of complex products were more favorable when decisions were made in the absence of attentive deliberation (Dijksterhuis et al. 2006).”
Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy (2015, neutral): “…unconscious processes in human decisions and behavior (Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2000; Bargh & Chartrand, 1999; Chaiken & Trope, 1999; Chartrand & Bargh, 2002; Chartrand, Huber, Shiv, & Tanner, 2008; Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006; Fitzsimons et al., 2002; Kahneman, 2003, 2011; Wilson & Schooler, 1991).”
Attributions to intuition in the venture founding process: Do entrepreneurs actually use intuition or just say that they do? (2011, background): “While such misinterpretation will always be a possibility, entrepreneurs can reduce its probability of occurrence if they (1) understand how intuition develops and what their intuitive judgments are based on (Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, 2006) and (2) seek relevant knowledge and experience whose lesso”
Intuition: A Challenge for Psychological Research on Decision Making (2010, result): “The role of intuition in the form of unconscious thought has been highlighted by a series of studies by Dijksterhuis and his colleagues (see, e.g., Dijksterhuis, Bos, Nordgren, & van Baaren, 2006; Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006).”
The effect of primed goals on employee performance: Implications for human resource management (2011, background): “Thus, a subconscious goal, relative to a conscious goal, consumes fewer cognitive resources (Anderson, 1985; Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006).”
On the goal-dependency of unconscious thought (2008, positive): “However, it has been demonstrated recently that a period of unconscious thought can improve the quality of people’s decisions (Dijksterhuis et al., 2006; Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006).”
Development and Validation of a New Measure of Intuition: The Types of Intuition Scale (2014, background): “…to the Unconscious Thought Theory, these holistic judgments may be superior to analytic judgments under certain circumstances because holistic processing is not limited in the way that working memory constrains the capacity of the analytic mode of processing (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006).”
New findings on unconscious versus conscious thought in decision making: additional empirical data and meta-analysis. (2008, background): “These were one data set pertaining to decision quality after varying intervals of unconscious thought (Dijksterhuis, 2004a, as cited in Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, 2006 ) and a study that used the same stimulus material as the present study (Dijksterhuis, Bos, van Baaren, & van der Leij, in prep.,…”
Risk and rationality in entrepreneurial processes (2007, background): “Exploring the complementarity of conscious and unconscious thought ( Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, 2006: Hodgson, 1985) may shed light on aspects of entrepreneurship unexplored in prior research done from a cognitive perspective.”