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Perception without awareness

Name: Perception without awareness
Author: Robert F. Bornstein, Thane S. Pittman
ISBN: 9780898628869

by Robert F. Bornstein, Thane S. Pittman

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This landmark volume brings together the work of the world's leading researchers in sublimated perception. This compilation marks a fundamental shift in the current study of subliminal effects: No longer in question is the notion that perception without awareness occurs. Now, the emphasis is on elucidating the parameters of subliminal effects and understanding the conditions under which stimuli perceived without awareness significantly influence affect, cognition, and behavior.

Perception Without Awareness firmly establishes subliminal perception within the mainstream of psychological science. Well represented here are the two main research branches that have emerged: One directly investigates the nature of subliminal effects; the other uses subliminal techniques as tools for investigating psychological phenomena such as hypnosis, dreaming, repression, social judgment and inference, psychopathology, and symptom formation. Broadly grouped into three main sections, the contributed chapters explore

* The cognitive perspective--including implicit memory and implicit perception, the measurement of unconscious perceptual processes, and methods for revealing unconscious processes

* The clinical perspective--exploring the cognitive and dynamic aspects of subliminal perception, memory, and consciousness; direct recovery of subliminal stimuli; and validation of subliminal psychodynamic activation

* The social perspective--discussing subliminal mere-exposure effects, affect and social perception, and the role of subliminality in social psychology

Timely and thought-provoking, Perception Without Awareness is sure to be of enormous interest to all psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars, as well as cognitive, clinical, and social psychologists whose work touches upon issues relating to psychopathology, perception, cognition, and memory.

About the Author, Robert F. Bornstein, Thane S. Pittman

Robert F. Bornstein received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at Gettysburg College. Dr. Bornstein has published numerous articles on perception without awareness, as well as on the antecedents, dynamics, and correlates of dependent personality traits. He is the author of The Dependent Personality, a comprehensive review of the empirical literature on dependency, which will be published by Guilford Press in 1993.

Thane S. Pittman received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Iowa in 1972. He is currently Professor and Chair of Psychology at Gettysburg College. Dr. Pittman has published widely on the aspects of human social motivation, including research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, control motivation, and attitude change processes. He is coauthor (with Ann Boggiano) of Achievement Motivation: A Socio-Developmental Perspective, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 1993.

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The outgrowth of a conference held at Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania), March 1991, this volume brings together the work of leading researchers in the two main research branches of subliminal perception: one directly investigates the nature of subliminal effects; the other uses subliminal techniques as tools for investigating psychological phenomena such as hypnosis, dreaming, repression, social judgment and inference, psychopathology, and symptom formation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)