Kelley’s Paradox and strength skewness in research on unconscious mental processes
Daryl Y. H. Lee,
Christopher J. Berry,
David R. Shanks
Abstract:A widely adopted approach in research on unconscious perception and cognition involves contrasting behavioral or neural responses to stimuli that have been presented to participants (e.g., old items in a memory test) against those that have not (e.g., new items), and which participants do not discriminate in their conscious reports. We demonstrate that such contrasts do not license inferences about unconscious processing, for two reasons. One is Kelley’s Paradox, a statistical phenomenon caused by regression t… Show more
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