In other words, many high-level mental processes may not be *intrinsically* or permanently unconscious. Rather, people may be experiencing an internal analogue of inattentional blindness -- they fail to see what's going on in their mind because they're not paying attention.

Before the study, we asked decision scientists from SJDM to predict participants’ accuracy. Participants were *much* more accurate than these experts predicted; experts thought people would only show an r of 0.44. (Thanks to everyone at @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social bsky.social who participated!)

The main result: Participants’ self-reports were often highly correlated with their actual choice processes. For instance, in one study, participants had an average correlation of 0.8 between their self-reported attribute weights and the best-fit weights from the computational model.