Note on Malik and Paraherakis's (1998) Commentary regarding the Encoding Capacity of the Cognitive Unconscious

Contrary to Malik and Paraherakis's 1998 assessment, Greenwald and Liu's results support a cognitive unconscious with a limited encoding capacity, but findings from subliminal psychodynamic activation cannot be used to estimate that capacity because they are ambiguous. Although empirical evidence supports the idea of a cognitive unconscious that is limited to encoding the meanings of single words, we endorse Malik and Paraherakis's implication that a more precise estimate of the capacity of the cognitive unconscious requires the execution of many more experiments with multiword stimuli.