- Title
- Clinical neuroscience: towards a better understanding of non-conscious versus conscious processes involved in impulsive aggressive behaviours and pornography viewership
- Creator
- Kunaharan, Sajeev; Walla, Peter
- Relation
- Psychology Vol. 5, Issue 18, p. 1963-1966
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2014.518199
- Publisher
- Scientific Research Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Assuming that the human mind indeed consists of a non-conscious and a onscious part it makes sense to believe that consciousness at times may struggle to get ccess to non-conscious content, which seems rather logical. At the same time most of us are aware that affective processing underlying our emotions happens non-consciously due to limbic activity that is mostly sub-cortical. Thus, any explicit response to a question about one's state of affect is inevitably prone to be inaccurate if not wrong. Therefore, any therapy, biological and/or psychological that is based on explicit responses is potentially misleading. With this opinion article we aim to generate awareness about potential discrepancies between self-reported versus objectively measured emotion-related states. There is more to emotion than just subjective feeling and we should start taking nonconscious emotion-related processes into account.
- Subject
- non-conscious affective processing; implicit versus explicit responses; electroencephalography (EEG); startle reflex modulation (SRM); emotion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1297286
- Identifier
- uon:19415
- Identifier
- ISSN:2152-7180
- Language
- eng
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