Conscious thought does not guide moment-to-moment actions—it serves social and cultural functions
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Conscious thought does not guide moment-to-moment actions—it serves social and cultural functions
Humans enjoy a private, mental life that is richer and more vivid than that of any other animal. Yet as central as the conscious experience is to human life, numerous disciplines have long struggled to explain it. The present paper reviews the latest theories and evidence from psychology that addresses what conscious thought is and how it affects human behavior. We suggest that conscious though...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00478