Nonconcurrence of Conscious and Unconscious Cognition in Resolving Internal Contradiction

Abstract

this article focuses on a new method of examining the cognitive unconscious and ways of overcoming internal contradiction at conscious and unconscious levels of the human mind. respondents to this survey were 210 Bulgarian students who evaluated seventeen items with reference to their professional inclinations. they also made direct and indirect assessment of pairs of items whether they were contrary or similar. it was assumed that the direct assessment was done on a conscious level, and the indirect-on an unconscious level. factor analysis of three variables-thesis, antithesis, and synthesis-was conducted, which revealed nonconcurrence of the direct and indirect assessment, which suggests the nonconcurrence of conscious and unconscious content. in some cases, the contradiction is resolved on conscious and unconscious levels, which suggests concurrence, but in others it occurs only on the conscious or only on the unconscious level, which indicates nonconcurrence.

Ethics of Belief in Paranormal Phenomena

“…As Geraskov (2012) has so deftly demonstrated, people's identification of beliefs as mutually contradictory can be conscious or unconscious. This observation should be borne in mind in the following context.…”