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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818061603321

Titolo

Handbook of self-knowledge / / edited by Simine Vazire, Timothy D. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Guilford Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-87941-6

9786613720726

1-4625-0516-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VazireSimine

WilsonTimothy D

Disciplina

155.2

Soggetti

Self-perception

Subconsciousness

Personality (Theory of knowledge)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Simine Vazire & Timothy D. Wilson -- The origins and nature of self-knowledge -- The development of self-knowledge / Daniel Hart & M. Kyle Matsuba -- Self-insight from a dual-process perspective / Bertram Gawronski & Galen V. Bodenhausen -- Referential processing and competence as determinants of congruence between implicit and explicit motives / Oliver C. Schultheiss & Alexandra Strasser -- Self-knowledge : from philosophy to neuroscience to psychology / Matthew D. Lieberman -- Blind spots to the self : limits in knowledge of mental contents and personal predispositions / Jason Chin, Michael Mrazek & Jonathan Schooler -- Other people as a source of self-knowledge / Sanjay Srivastava -- Individual differences in self-knowledge / Roberta A. Schriber & Richard W. Robins -- Domains of self-knowledge -- Knowing our personality / Mitja D. Back & Simine Vazire -- Knowing our attitudes and how to change them / Pablo Briññol & Richard E. Petty -- Self-knowledge, unconscious thought, and decision making / Maarten W. Bos & Ap Dijksterhuis -- Knowing our emotions : how do we know what we feel? / Gerald L. Clore and Michael D. Robinson -- On (not) knowing



and feeling what we want and like / Galit Hofree & Piotr Winkielman -- Partner-knowledge and relationship outcomes / Jeffry A. Simpson, Jennifer Fillo, & John Myers -- Meta-accuracy : do we know how others see us? / Erika N. Carlson & David A. Kenny -- Knowing our pathology / Thomas F. Oltmanns & Abigail D. Powers -- Knowing our past and future selves -- Affective forecasting : knowing how we will feel in the future / Kostadin Kushlev & Elizabeth W. Dunn -- Knowing who we were : past selves and autobiographical memory / Colleen M. Kelley & Larry L. Jacoby -- Self conceptualization, self-knowledge, and regulatory scope : a construal level view / Cheryl J. Wakslak, Yaacov Trope & Nira Liberman -- Sitting at the nexus of epistemological traditions : narrative psychological perspectives on self-knowledge / Jonathan M. Adler -- Motives and biases in self-knowledge -- Illusions of self-knowledge / Katherine E. Hansen & Emily Pronin -- Classic self-deception revisited / Delroy L. Paulhus & Erin Buckels -- On motivated reasoning and self-belief / Erik G. Helzer & David Dunning -- Strube from "out there"" to ""in here" : implications of self-evaluation motives for self-knowledge / Michael J. Strube -- Reducing egoistic biases in self-beliefs / Mark R. Leary & Kaitlin Toner.

Sommario/riassunto

This authoritative handbook reviews the state of the science of self-knowledge, a key emerging area in psychology. Leading investigators describe innovative theory and research that is shedding new light on how-and how accurately-people perceive their own traits, thoughts, feelings, behavior, and relationships. Coverage encompasses the behavioral, mental, biological, and social structures that underlie self-knowledge; approaches to studying self-beliefs in specific domains; and the motives and biases that influence accuracy. The volume explores the personal and societal benefits of sel