Tag: #Dijksterhuis

2 essays

Unconscious perceptual processes

This article was inspired by a lecture given by Pamela Smith at the Radboud University Nijmegen. The purpose of perception is to support behaviour. Why do we perceive things in the first place? What is the point of it? Is it so we can understand the world? That sounds logical, but that cannot be the […]

Learn to like – Implementation Intention & Affect

1. Short Summary of the research proposal This study investigates the role of affect in consciously created automatic behaviour tendencies (implementation intentions). The general hypothesis is that the frequency of a behaviour is closely connected to the activation of a specific behaviour tendency, but this model often fails when implementation intentions are used to change […]