Must We Always Think Before We Act?
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 2 (1), 31-35
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727600200106
Abstract
It is argued that the role of thought in social interaction has been overstressed. In view of the cost of thought and the redundancy of social interaction, it is argued that habit is a much more common determinant of social behaviour than cognition. Implications are discussed.Keywords
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