Intro to Honors Lit Review

Consciousness; something we hold so dear, and so sacred to our human-being has faced quite the criticism through the field of cognitive psychology. From the pitfalls of short-term memory, to recency effects; maybe all we have left is our practical ability, our common knowledge, that at least when we actively, and extensively, engage in dilberation on any problem we know we can be mostly sure of our conclusion.  So, when Ap Dijksterhuis’ (2004) article “Think Different” The Merits of Unconscious Thought in Preference Development and Decision Making” fucked that all up, researchers around the globe got pissed.