This Argument Is An Illusion

Eben Harrell rounds up recent research on unconscious thought:

Custers and Bargh acknowledge that their research undermines afundamental principle used to promote human exceptionalism — indeed,Bargh has in the past argued that his work undermines the existence offree will. But Custers also points out that his conclusions are notnew: people have long sensed that they are influenced by forces beyondtheir immediate recognition — be it Greek gods or Freud's unruly id.What's more, the unconscious...