Preconscious perception: A re-examination of the Poetzel phenomenon.

Based on the format of a previous investigation (see 33: 9534) this study investigated the Poetzel phenomenon, but with certain features of the original design, felt to contribute artifacts to the results, altered. Ss were exposed to tachistoscopically-presented stimuli which were then evaluated as to their presence in daydream associations the following day. To check whether the content of the associations were related to the experimentally-presented stimuli or not, this study added a control group, not exposed to the experimental stimuli, but asked to day dream and associate freely. To be validly related to the experimental stimuli, the associations of the group exposed to the stimuli should be significantly different from that in the control group; they were not. The Poetzel hypothesis was not felt to be supported. From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4HL97J. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)