Non-conscious goal conflicts

Tali Kleiman; Ran R. Hassin

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.007

Non-conscious goal conflicts

Tali Kleiman^*, Ran R. Hassin

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Department of Psychology

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Abstract

The question raised in this paper is whether goal conflicts can occur outside of conscious awareness. Given the numerous and potentially conflicting goals people pursue, and the severe scarcity of mental resources, we offer a positive answer. Six experiments that employed a dissociation paradigm tested this hypothesis. Using three implicit behavioral markers of goal conflict (increased decision times, increased decision variance and heightened sensitivity to environmental information), and one physiological marker (increased arousal as measured by skin conductance level), these experiments document goal conflicts that do not reach conscious awareness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	521-532
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Volume	47
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.007
State	Published - May 2011

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Funding Information:
We thank Gershon Ben-Shakhar for valuable discussions and advice regarding skin conductance measures used in Experiment 3, and Eva Gagel for her help in running the experiment. This research was partly supported by grant # 0321648 from the Israeli Science Foundation to Ran R. Hassin.

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Non-conscious goal conflict
Non-conscious goal pursuit

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