Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this manuscript, concepts, issues and resolutions that call for conscious awareness in research into the unconscious are revisited and reviewed. Historical episodes and episodes of controversial experimentation that are formative rallying points for understanding contemporary attitudes to the unconscious in psychological science, and the impact of historical controversy to contemporary polarisation, are meticulously discussed. The theoretical debates, methodological inquiries and contributing resolutions that have stemmed from these controversies are cited and discoursed. Replicated empirical illustrations, that show how purportedly established and well-known biases persist, and previously unaddressed methodological biases occur, and how we may resolve them, are experimentally demonstrated. We show that resolutions are still pending further advances within the - frequently overlooked - limitations of our current scientific paradigm. As a seminal communication, stemming from engaging with these themes, concepts, issues and resolutions, the contextual importance and research value of a reminding, and combined scholarly-theoretical and applied-empirical conscious understanding of unconscious research is carefully emphasised and accentuated.
Authors: Myron Tsikandilakis, Persefoni Bali, Victοria-Maria Pasachidou, Romina Leonor Toranzos, Konrad Szczesniak, Pierre-Alexis Mével, Christopher Madan, Alison Milbank
Language: English
Subfield: General Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,390
OpenAlex ID: W4415458317