Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
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“Know thyself,” a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are, he advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you.
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Literature from social psychology suggests that self-evaluations of internal states must be corroborated with independent measures, namely implicit measures or nonverbal behavior.
“Literature from social psychology suggests that self-evaluations of internal states must be corroborated with independent measures, namely implicit measures or nonverbal behavior (Wilson, 2004, 2009).”
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- Authors
- Wilson, T. D.
- Corresponding author
- Wilson, Timothy D.
- ORCID
- Wilson, Timothy D.
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2004-05-15
- OpenAlex
- W4213443563
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 9 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.80
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Keywords
- self-knowledge, self-reflection, unconscious, self-concept, social perception, behavior, identity
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