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July 1, 2010

Motivation Doesn’t Have To Be Conscious - Is Your Left Hand More Motivated Than Your Right?

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Motivation doesn't have to be conscious; your brain can decide how much it wants something without input from your conscious mind. Now a new study shows that both halves of your brain don't even have to agree. Motivation can happen in one side of the brain at a time. Psychologists used to think that motivation was a conscious process. You know you want something, so you try to get it...

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June 15, 2009

Can the Unconscious Outperform the Conscious Mind?

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 5:00 pm
ยท Think or blink? The powerful claims for unconscious thought in complex decision-making are overblown.In 2005 Malcolm Gladwell published a book called Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It had an extremely seductive message: that complex decisions are often more accurate when made quickly, unconsciously, in the blink of an eye.Gladwell described a man [...]» Visit happier.com f

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