UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING ARE UNJUSTIFIED

Recently, there has been widespread focus on studies of unconscious processing that have come out of the field of “social priming ” (Doyen et al., 2012; Yong, 2012; Shanks et al., 2013). This focus has primar-ily been on their replicability (Pashler and Wagenmakers, 2012) and attendant claims of statistical and methodological impro-priety (Simmons et al., 2011; Newell and Shanks, 2014). The logic of the claims made has received less attention. In this commentary I draw attention to certain limitations on the inferences which can be drawn about participant’s awareness from the experimental methods which are rou