The New Unconscious (Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195149955 ISBN 13: 9780195149951

Publisher: OUP USA, 2004

Synopsis

Over the past two decades, a new picture of the cognitive unconscious has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. According to this picture, unconscious processes seem to be capable of doing many things that were thought to require intention, deliberation, and conscious awareness. Moreover, they accomplish these things without the conflict and drama of the psychoanalytic unconscious. These processes range from complex information processing, through goal pursuit and emotions, to cognitive control and self-regulation. This collection of 20 original chapters by leading researchers examines the cognitive unconscious from social, cognitive, and neuroscientific viewpoints, presenting some of the most important developments at the heart of this new picture of the unconscious. The volume, the first book in the new Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience series, will be an important resource on the cognitive unconscious for researchers in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

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Review

The New Unconscious is...a fascinating read. It contains a mine of information that will not only interest philosophers of mind and psychology, but also prove relevant to explorations in naturalized epistemology and ethics. (David Livingstone Smith, Mind Journal)

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195149955
• ISBN 13: 9780195149951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 604
• Editor: Hassin Ran R., Uleman James S., Bargh John A.