The automaticity of everyday life

Abstract

(from the chapter) argues that much of everyday life--thinking, feeling, and doing--is automatic in that it is driven by current features of the environment (i.e., people, objects, behaviors of others, settings, roles, norms, etc.) as mediated by automatic cognitive processing of those features, without any mediation by conscious choice or reflection / describes 3 routes by which environmental stimuli automatically and nonconsciously produce social behavior: via automatic social perception (i.e., the perception-behavior link), automatic evaluation (i.e., approach-avoidance motivation), and automatic goal and motive activation (i.e., auto-motivation) / as the claim is made that these are 3 separate processing modules, evidence is also presented indicating their dissociations ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved)