Strangers to ourselves : discovering the adaptive unconscious / Timothy D. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Timothy D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-perception.

Subconsciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover? In a tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces a hidden mental world of judgements, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show.

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 Freud’s Genius, Freud’s Myopia

2 The Adaptive Unconscious

3 Who’s in Charge?

4 Knowing Who We Are

5 Knowing Why

6 Knowing How We Feel

7 Knowing How We Will Feel

8 Introspection and Self-Narratives

9 Looking Outward to Know Ourselves

10 Observing and Changing Our Behavior

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780674504219

0674504216

9780674045217

0674045211

OCLC:

1294425898