Do You Control Your Unconscious Action Impulses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7150311 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yongchun Wang (0000-0002-0748-7937, School of Psychology Shaanxi Normal University, corresponding author), Mingxiang Li (0000-0002-1366-6448, School of Psychology Shaanxi Normal University), Meng Zou (0000-0002-2566-1572, School of Psychology Shaanxi Normal University), Yunfei Gao (0000-0001-8869-5625, School of Psychology Shaanxi Normal University), Zhengqi Tang (School of Psychology Shaanxi Normal University), Yonghui Wang (0000-0001-7432-2107, School of Psychology Shaanxi Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | e70041-e70041 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0364-0213 • E-ISSN: 1551-6709 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cogs.70041 |
| PMID | 39898815 |
| OpenAlex | W4407100587 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 58 |
A crucial aspect of self‐control is the voluntary inhibition of impulsive actions. Stimuli can elicit impulses (or preparation) to act not only in the presence but also in the absence of perceptual awareness, but whether people control action impulses elicited by unconscious stimuli remains unclear. This study used a masked prime version of the Go/NoGo/Free task and combined mathematical modeling of behavioral data to investigate whether people control the unconscious action impulses. In the experiment, when the subliminal prime stimulus triggers the unconscious action impulse, participants need to freely decide whether or not to perform the action. The results showed that the no‐response rate was higher in Go‐prime free‐choice trials than in NoGo‐prime free‐choice trials, and there were marginally larger negative drift rates in the former than in the latter. The results suggest that people are more likely to make inhibitory decisions about unconscious action impulses. This finding provides support for a framework that extends the feedback loop model of intentional inhibition
Cognitive psychology · Perception · Psychoanalysis · Subliminal stimuli · Unconscious mind · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Mathematics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology
Diffusion Decision Model
Different time courses for visual perception and action priming
The Diffusion Decision Model
HDDM
Human volition
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1
Why Do you Often Stop your Impulsive Behavior at the Last Moment
Incentives and voluntary stopping
One version of direct response priming requires automatization of the relevant associations but not awareness of the prime
Sociological Methodology1
A study of intentional inhibition of food stimuli among female restricted eaters
Bayesian Model Selection in Social Research
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |