Strangers to Ourselves Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious Tapa dura - 2002

Belknap Press, 2002. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book and jacket are in very good condition, little shelf rubbing apparent. There are many cases of text being underlined throughout the book, but the book remains very readable. "'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. This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and… Leer más

Harvard University Press, 01/10/2002 00:00:01. hardcover. Good. 2.8179 in x 23.1724 in x 16.6773 in.

Belknap Press, 2002-09-30. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Belknap Press, 2002-09-30. hardcover. New. 6x1x8. Brand new gift quality hardcover in jacket Please email for photos.