Consciousness

Abstract

This chapter clarifies the definition and reviews recent theories of consciousness, such as the dual systems framework, global workplace theory, and higher-order theory. Aspects of conscious experiences are useful in studying tourism decisionmaking, memory, emotions, tourism behaviour, and other topics related to tourism psychology. For instance, studies on conscious experiences of decisionmaking are useful to better understand destination choice and tourists’ emotions elicitation, unconscious biases help to understand tourism attitude formation, while explicit and implicit cognition research provides insights to destination image attributes. Future studies may consider using objective and subjective methods of studying consciousness in the tourism context.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

6-24-2024

Volume

27

Publication Title

Tourism Social Science Series

Publisher

Emerald

School

School of Arts and Humanities

Comments

Scott, N. and Skavronskaya, L. (2024), "Consciousness", Cognitive Psychology and Tourism (Tourism Social Science Series, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320240000027007

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First Page

73

Last Page

83

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.1108/S1571-504320240000027007