Preconscious effects of temporary goals on attention
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- 作者：Moskowitz ; Gordon B.
- 关键词：Automaticity ; Preconscious processing ; Goal activation ; Auto-motives ; Closure ; Self-completion ; Goal striving ; Goal regulation ; Selective attention
- 刊名：Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- 出版年：2002
- 出版时间：July, 2002
- 年：2002
- 卷：38
- 期：4
- 页码：397-404
- 全文大小：98.5 K
文摘
Two experiments examined whether accessible goals preconsciously direct selective attention. Goal activation was manipulated by one's goal pursuit being either undermined or affirmed (resulting in an experienced state of either incompleteness or completeness). Attention responses were assessed through a Stroop-like task (Experiment 1) and a response-time task in which participants indicated a stimulus' direction of motion (Experiment 2). Results showed that when goals were accessible, attention was drawn toward goal-relevant items—even when these items were to be ignored and when responses occurred too fast for conscious control. Accessible goals directed implicit cognition (i.e., attention toward stimuli associated with the goal), despite the fact that these goals were not chronically held, but manipulated in the lab.