Commentary On Tsikandilakis Et Al. (2025)—Subtleties of Awareness Help Explain Discrepancies Between Conscious and Unconscious Perception Interpretations: Implications for Researchers and Their Participants
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science May 6, 2026 Steven J. Haase
As Tsikandilakis et al. (2025) illustrate, an intense back and forth scientific debate on the existence and scope of unconscious processing has existed for at least 2000 years and within the field of psychology for well over 100 years. The focus of my commentary highlights important contributions from signal detection theory, which my work was based upon, beginning over 30 years ago (Haase,...