The Automaticity Juggernaut-or, Are We Automatons After All?

Are We Free?: Psychology and Free Will

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kihlstrom, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive unconscious; Affective counterrevolution; Behaviorism; Determinism; Dual process theories; Epiphenomenalism; Epiphenomenalist suspicion; Process dissociation procedure situationism; Situationism

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EID: 84920506220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189636.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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