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Conscious content generated by unconscious action-related adjustments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2016

Farzaneh Pahlavan  and
Melana Arouss
Farzaneh Pahlavan
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Social Psychology: Threat & Society, EA 4471, Institut de Psychologie, Université Paris Descartes, 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France. farzaneh.pahlavan@parisdescartes.fr melana.arouss@etu.parisdescartes.fr http://lps.recherche.parisdescartes.fr/
Melana Arouss
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Social Psychology: Threat & Society, EA 4471, Institut de Psychologie, Université Paris Descartes, 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France. farzaneh.pahlavan@parisdescartes.fr melana.arouss@etu.parisdescartes.fr http://lps.recherche.parisdescartes.fr/
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Abstract

As mentioned in the target article by Morsella et al., the motor program's contents as a whole do not influence each other in the conscious field; however, research shows that some of their generated aspects could be sensitive to the context of the behavior. Such motivational “context-contamination” leads to voluntarily “turn off” of negative states. Taking place out of the conscious field, these adjustments would have critical influence on behavior, such as aggression.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e190
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