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Self-Insight - Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself (Hardcover)
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Self-Insight - Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself (Hardcover)
Series: Essays in Social Psychology
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People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views
they hold of their skill and moral character, yet a growing body of
research in psychology shows that such self-views are often
misguided or misinformed. Anyone who has dealt with others in the
classroom, in the workplace, in the medical office, or on the
therapist's couch has probably experienced people whose opinions of
themselves depart from the objectively possible.
This book outlines some of the common errors that people make when
they evaluate themselves. It also describes the many psychological
barriers -- some that people build by their own hand -- that
prevent individuals from achieving self-insight about their ability
and character.
The first section of the book focuses on mistaken views of
competence, and explores why people often remain blissfully unaware
of their incompetence and personality flaws. The second section
focuses on faulty views of character, and explores why people tend
to perceive they are more unique and special than they really are,
why people tend to possess inflated opinions of their moral fiber
that are not matched by their deeds, and why people fail to
anticipate the impact that emotions have on their choices and
actions.
The book will be of great interest to students and researchers in
social, personality, and cognitive psychology, but, through the
accessibility of its writing style, it will also appeal to those
outside of academic psychology with an interest in the
psychological processes which lead to our self-insight.
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