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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious Timothy D. Wilson
Publisher: Belknap Press

I learned that much of what we think we know about ourselves and our behaviors isn't really true. In it, Timothy Wilson argues that the things we know about and what forms our opinions – our conscious minds – are not controlling the vast majority of the acts we engage in every day. I've been reading “Strangers to Ourselves – Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious” lately, which is a real eye-opener. P Know thyself, a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. What are we trying to discover, anyway? But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Our adaptive unconscious is the real master , and the conscious is really only the tail. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. We think we are the tail wagging the dog, but it isn't so. Psychology has the immediate goal of. This is one of my favourite books. Meredith Chivers is a creator of bonobo pornography. This week I'm writing to recommend a highly accessible but empirically rich book on the unconscious mind and the experimental evidence concerning its nature. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious In Strangers to Ourselves, Timothy Wilson offers an assessment of the human unconscious that is very different from these extremes. Department of Psychology: John T. I just read a book called Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious.