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The automated will: Nonconscious activation and pursuit of behavioral goals.
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It is proposed that goals can be activated outside of awareness and then operate nonconsciously to guide self-regulation effectively (J. A. Bargh, 1990). Five experiments are reported in which the goal either to perform well or to cooperate was activated, without the awareness of participants, through a priming manipulation. In Experiment 1 priming of the goal to perform well caused participants to perform comparatively better on an intellectual task. In Experiment 2 priming of the goal to cooperate caused participants to replenish a commonly held resource more readily. Experiment 3 used a dissociation paradigm to rule out perceptual-construal alternative explanations. Experiments 4 and 5 demonstrated that action guided by nonconsciously activated goals manifests two classic content-free features of the pursuit of consciously held goals. Nonconsciously activated goals effectively guide action, enabling adaptation to ongoing situational demands.
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“One of these conflicting unconscious goals can become more dominant than another (Moskowitz et al., 1999; Bargh et al., 2001), thus preventing the individual from becoming aware of the less dominant goal (Moskowitz et al., 1999).”
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- Authors
- Bargh, J. A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Lee-Chai, A., Barndollar, K., & Trötschel, R.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2001
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1014-1027
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- PMC
- PMC3005626
- OpenAlex
- W2171838050
- Cited by
- 1,865
- References
- 114
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 69 · 2020: 123 · 2019: 77 · 2018: 67 · 2017: 81 · 2016: 89 · 2015: 98 · 2014: 118 · 2013: 145 · 2012: 122
- FWCI
- 39.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH060767)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychology of Social Influence
- Keywords
- implicit goals, goal pursuit, self-regulation, priming, goal-directed behavior, cooperation, performance goals, resource replenishment, construal level
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Automatism, Behavior, Cues, Goals, Humans, Psychomotor Performance, Random Allocation, Unconscious, Psychology
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