Maybe it helps to be conscious, after all

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  • DOI 10.1017/s0140525x13000630
  • PMID https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24461308
  • OpenAlex ID W2066765678
  • Type Article
  • Language EN
  • Published 24 Jan 2014
  • Volume 37 (1)
  • Pages 20–21
  • Source Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • FWCI 1.33
  • Countries 1
  • Institutions 3
  • Added 10 Oct 2025
  • Updated 25 Sep 2026
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Maybe it helps to be conscious, after all

Article 2014 EN

Psychologists debate whether consciousness or unconsciousness is most central to human behavior. Our goal, instead, is to figure out how they work together. Conscious processes are partly produced by unconscious processes, and much information processing occurs outside of awareness. Yet, consciousness has advantages that the unconscious does not. We discuss how consciousness causes behavior, drawi…

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1 Roy Frederick Baumeister Florida State University (US)
2 Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota (US)
3 E. J. Masicampo Wake Forest University (US)
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