Knowledge before belief: Evidence from unconscious content

Behav Brain Sci. 2021 Nov 19:44:e145. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000734.

Abstract

This commentary supports knowledge prior to belief, but from a different angle, supplementing the target article's central thesis. The target article evaluates belief-representations versus knowledge-representation in others. This commentary considers one's own unconscious knowledge, which can be prior to belief of any sort. Two examples are offered: one from clinical psychoanalysis, another involving a cognitive psychology duck/rabbit experiment.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Knowledge
  • Psychoanalysis*
  • Rabbits
  • Unconsciousness