References & Sources

Minds may track danger unconsciously

An unconscious mental process that evaluates real and imagined danger may underlie the experience of anxiety.

References:

Bargh, J.A., and T.L. Chartrand. 1999. The unbearable automaticity of being. American Psychologist 54(July):462.

Wong, P.S. 1999. An unconscious signal function. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 47:817.

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1999. The mental butler did it. Science News 156(Oct. 30):280.

Sources:

John A. Bargh
New York University
Department of Psychology
6 Washington Place
Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10003

Philip S. Wong
New School for Social Research
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
65 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 24, December 11, 1999, p. 372. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.