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

Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. Recent books attest to this on-going discovery of our somatic self. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press. Das Behalten erledigter und unerledigter Handlungen. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Wilson introduces “The adaptive unconscious is more likely to influence people's uncontrolled, implicit responses, whereas the constructed self is more likely to influence people's deliberate, explicit responses.” Although we have This might very well be why we share so much of ourselves online – in order to have our friends help us discover our unconscious self more. April 7: The Unconscious and Self-Knowledge about Agency. Sex differences and lifestyle dependent shifts in the attunement of self-esteem to self-perceived mate value: Hints to an adaptive mechanism. Strangers to ourselves: Discovering the adaptive unconscious. Let's turn to the original: Timothy D. Self-knowledge: Its limits, value, and potential for improvement. Wilson's Strangers to Ourselves (2002).