Strangers to ourselves: discovering the adaptive unconscious

""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 intro...

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Main Author: Wilson, Timothy D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2002
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Summary:""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."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-256) and index
Physical Description:viii, 262 S. 22 cm
ISBN:0674009363

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