Unintended Thought

List of contents

Introduction PART 1 BASIC PROCESSES 1. Conditional Automaticity: Varieties of Automatic Influence in Social Perception and Cognition 2. Automaticity and Cognitive Control 3. Knowledge Accessibility and Activation: Subjectivity and Suffering from Unconscious Sources 4. Affect and Automaticity PART II. UNINTENDED AND UNATTENDED THOUGHT IN DAILY LIFE 5. Spontaneous Trait Inference 6. Thinking Lightly about Others: Automatic Components of the Social Inference Process 7. Heuristic and Systematic Information Processing within and beyond the Persuasion Context 8. Examining the Role of Intent: Toward Understanding Its Role in Stereotyping and Prejudice PART III. REGAINING CONTROL OF UNINTENDED THOUGHT 9. Mental Control: The War of the Ghosts in the Machine 10. Toward a Motivational and Structural Theory of Ruminative Thought 11. Stream of Consciousness and Stress: Levels of Thinking 12. Coming to Terms with Major Negative Life Events 13. Automatic and Dysfunctional Cognitive Processes in Depression PART IV. SUMMARIES AND CONCLUSIONS 14. A Framework for Thinking Intentionally about Unintended Thought 15. Intentional Chapters on Unintended Thoughts, Index

About the author

James S. Uleman Ph.D. and John A. Bargh Ph.D. both of the Department of Psychology, New York Univer­sity, New York.

Summary

To what extent are we in control of our thoughts and actions?" This question - which cuts across cognitive, social, clinical, developmental, and health psychology - is the focus of this unusually rich and provocative volume.

Product details

• Assisted by: John A Bargh (Editor), John A. Bargh (Editor), John A. (Yale University Bargh (Editor), Bargh John A. (Editor), James S Uleman (Editor), James S. Uleman (Editor), Uleman James S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.12.1989
• EAN: 9780898623796
• ISBN: 978-0-89862-379-6
• No. of pages: 469
• Weight: 920 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology