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The unconscious thought effect in clinical decision making : an example in diagnosis . The unconscious thought effect refers to improved judgments and decisions after a period of distraction . The authors studied the unconscious thought effect in a complex and error-prone part of clinical decision making : diagnosis . Their aim was to test whether conscious versus unconscious processing influenced diagnosis of psychiatric cases . They used case descriptions from the DSM-IV casebook . Half of the participants were randomly assigned to the conscious-processing-condition ( i.e. , consciously thinking about the information they read in the case description ) , the other half to the unconscious-processing condition ( i.e. , performing an unrelated distracter task ) . The main dependent measure was the total number of correct classifications . Compared to conscious processing , unconscious processing significantly increased the number of correct classifications . The results show the potential merits of unconscious processing in diagnostic decision making .
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conscious-processing-condition
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unconscious-processing condition
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total number of correct classifications
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number of correct classifications
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diagnostic decision making
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consciously thinking about the information they read in the case description ) , the other half to the unconscious-processing condition ( i.e.