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Toward a physiology of dual-process reasoning and judgment: lemonade, willpower, and expensive rule-based analysisE J Masicampo
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301, USA
Psychol Sci 19:255-60. 2008..Only lemonade with sugar reduced the attraction effect. These results show one way in which the body (blood glucose) interacts with the mind (self-control and reliance on heuristics)...
Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: how mental simulations serve the animal-culture interfaceRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301, USA
Psychol Rev 117:945-71. 2010....
Consider it done! Plan making can eliminate the cognitive effects of unfulfilled goalsE J Masicampo
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:667-83. 2011..Once a plan is made, the drive to attain a goal is suspended--allowing goal-related cognitive activity to cease--and is resumed at the specified later time...
Evidence that logical reasoning depends on conscious processingC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 201 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Conscious Cogn 17:628-45. 2008..Meanwhile, stimulating the conscious goal of reasoning well led to improvements in reasoning performance (Experiment 4). These findings offer evidence that logical reasoning is aided by the conscious, reflective processing system...
Do conscious thoughts cause behavior?Roy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 62:331-61. 2011..It is plausible that almost every human behavior comes from a mixture of conscious and unconscious processing...
Prosocial benefits of feeling free: disbelief in free will increases aggression and reduces helpfulnessRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:260-8. 2009..Although the findings do not speak to the existence of free will, the current results suggest that disbelief in free will reduces helping and increases aggression...
Arguing, reasoning, and the interpersonal (cultural) functions of human consciousnessRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301 http www psy fsu edu baumeistertice index html
Behav Brain Sci 34:74. 2011..These mesh well with the argument theory of reasoning. In broader context, the distinctively human traits are adaptations for culture and inner processes serve interpersonal functions...
