A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them.
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Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training
Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...
