The Essence of Conscious Conflict: Subjective Effects of Sustaining Incompatible Intentions

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 717-728

  Morsella, Ezequiel ^a,b   Gray, Jeremy R ^c   Krieger, Stephen C ^d   Bargh, John A ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive conflict; conflict; consciousness; self control; subjective experience

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONSCIOUSNESS; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTENTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST;

EID: 70350131898     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017121     Document Type: Article

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