ABSTRACT
Calvin preached that people were so inherently corrupt that nothing in their nature could possibly incline them toward God. According to Calvin, this was not unfair, because human beings were despicable to begin with, and therefore deserved to be damned. Only the receipt of God's grace could render them worthy of salvation. As mentioned earlier, Calvinism holds that willpower is irrelevant to salvation. Even worse, Gods Elect should not even be tempted to sin, because Gods grace should make righteousness in both thought and deed inescapable. Participants in Quattrone and Tverskys study underwent a bogus medical exam, the results of which supposedly indicated their future medical status. An unconscious mind is postulated to possess an intelligence comparable to, or greater than, that of the conscious mind. Greenwald provided a more plausible model of self-deception. The central contention of the model is that it is possible to avoid threatening information without exhaustively analyzing it first.
