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The unconscious and self awareness

Submitted by Leah Bonnell on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 9:35pm.

I am interested to know if there is a connection between self awareness and unconscious thought. Does a high sense of self awareness also mean an ability to comprehend unconscious thought? I think we have to ability recognize unconscious thought by thinking about why we make certain actions and decisions. Currently, researchers are trying to measure "unconscious bias" by analyzed test subjects' responses to varying situations. After the experiment the test subjects can become aware of their unconscious biases based on race, gender, and age.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18tier.html?_r=1 

This leads me to wonder how unconscious thoughts become conscious?

 

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