What we (don't) know about what we know.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109 http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/

Published: February 2014

The hypothesis of unconscious influences on complex behavior is observationally equivalent to the dissociability of cognition and metacognition (reportability). The target article convincingly argues that evidence for unconscious influence is limited by the quality of the metacognitive measure used. However, it understates the empirical evidence for unconscious influences and overlooks considerations of cognitive architecture that make cognitive/metacognitive dissociations likely.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13000836DOI Listing

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