The article "Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis" by Agnes Moors and Jan De Houwer explores the concept of automaticity in psychology, discussing various theoretical views and their implications. The authors examine how automaticity is diagnosed through the presence of features such as unintentional, uncontrolled, goal-independent, autonomous, purely stimulus-driven, unconscious, efficient, and fast. They argue that these features should be investigated separately, but contemporary views suggest that this approach may not be feasible due to conceptual overlaps among the features. The article reviews several approaches to automaticity, including the capacity view, the dual-mode model, and the gradual view, each with its own interpretations of the features of automaticity. The authors conclude that while the conceptual analysis of features is largely feasible, the all-or-none conception of automaticity is challenged by empirical studies showing that different features do not always co-occur. They propose a gradual view, where automaticity is a continuum rather than a dichotomy, and suggest that the concept should be defined in terms of features rather than a single underlying process. The article also discusses the importance of distinguishing between the definition, explanation, and diagnosis of automaticity, and concludes that a feature-based approach is more cautious and viable for diagnosing automaticity.The article "Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis" by Agnes Moors and Jan De Houwer explores the concept of automaticity in psychology, discussing various theoretical views and their implications. The authors examine how automaticity is diagnosed through the presence of features such as unintentional, uncontrolled, goal-independent, autonomous, purely stimulus-driven, unconscious, efficient, and fast. They argue that these features should be investigated separately, but contemporary views suggest that this approach may not be feasible due to conceptual overlaps among the features. The article reviews several approaches to automaticity, including the capacity view, the dual-mode model, and the gradual view, each with its own interpretations of the features of automaticity. The authors conclude that while the conceptual analysis of features is largely feasible, the all-or-none conception of automaticity is challenged by empirical studies showing that different features do not always co-occur. They propose a gradual view, where automaticity is a continuum rather than a dichotomy, and suggest that the concept should be defined in terms of features rather than a single underlying process. The article also discusses the importance of distinguishing between the definition, explanation, and diagnosis of automaticity, and concludes that a feature-based approach is more cautious and viable for diagnosing automaticity.