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== Brief history == While Freudian analysis of the conscious and the unconscious minds dominated the field, psychological scientists in the 1970s became curious about how those two seemingly separate worlds could work together.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gur|first1=Ruben C.|last2=Sackeim|first2=Harold A.|author-link2=Harold A. Sackeim|date=1979|title=Self-deception: A concept in search of a phenomenon.|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|language=en|volume=37|issue=2|pages=147β169|doi=10.1037/0022-3514.37.2.147|issn=0022-3514}}</ref> The lack of mechanistic models available to this line of research, led to the debate being unresolved. Later, the focus has been shifted to vision-related research in social psychology.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Balcetis|first=Emily|date=January 2008|title=Where the Motivation Resides and Self-Deception Hides: How Motivated Cognition Accomplishes Self-Deception|journal=Social and Personality Psychology Compass|language=en|volume=2|issue=1|pages=361β381|doi=10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00042.x|issn=1751-9004}}</ref>
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