Strangers to ourselves : discovering the adaptive unconscious

"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.