Losing Consciousness: Automatic Influences on Consumer Judgment, Behavior, and Motivation

John A Bargh

Journal of Consumer Research, 2002, vol. 29, issue 2, 280-85

Abstract: Consumer research has largely missed out on two key developments in social cognition research: the growing evidence that much of social judgment and behavior occur without conscious awareness or intent and the substantial moderating influence of social- and self-related goal pursuits on basic cognitive and reasoning processes. This evidence is described and its implications are drawn for nonconscious--including subliminal--influences on consumer behavior. The consumer research domain appears ideal for the necessary next wave of this research: the assessment of how much of a role nonconscious influences play in real life in decisions and behavior that are of real consequence to the individual. Copyright 2002 by the University of Chicago.

Date: 2002
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