Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

By Timothy D. Wilson. 2002

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Cognitive Processing of Self-Report Items in Educational Research: Do They Think What We Mean? (2007, background): “…metacognition while learning, for example, require considerable self-reflection and abstraction, which pose fundamental challenges regarding the constructive nature of what respondents—especially children—are capable of reporting about themselves (e.g., Hassin, Uleman, & Bargh, 2005; Wilson, 2002).”
Systems and levels: Dual-system theories and the personal- subpersonal distinction ∗ (2009, background): “There is good evidence that much of it is (e.g. Gazzaniga 1998; Wegner 2002; Wilson 2002).”
Implicit Cognition and Addiction: A Tool for Explaining Paradoxical Behavior (2010, background): “The study of implicit cognition has evolved and continued to progress over a long period: first very slowly, now quite rapidly, and occasionally with differing labels (Wilson 2002).”
Degraded conditions: Confounds in the study of decision making (2014, background): “& Wilson, T. D. (1977) Telling more than we can know: Verbal”
Object focused q-learning for autonomous agents (2013, unknown): “Adult humans are consciously aware of only one stimulus out of each 3 hundred thousand received [22], and they can only hold a maximum of 3 to 5 meaningful items or chunks [1] in their short-term memory.”
Social psychological factors in lifestyle change and their relevance to policy (2007, background): “neglect or misunderstand important predictors of their own feelings and actual behavior (Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 2002; Wilson, 2002).”
Getting Explicit About the Implicit (2012, background): “Research shows that people have difficulty accurately identifying the influences on their attitudes and decisions, indicating severe limits to the accuracy of conscious introspection (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977; Wilson, 2002; Wilson & Brekke, 1994; Wilson, Dunn, Kraft, & Lisle, 1989).”
Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects (2007, background): “But as is now well-known, dissociations can exist between experiential (veridical) consciousness and meta-consciousness; that is, we can only know what people are meta-conscious of (what they believe they experience) not the actual contents of their subjective experience (eg, Schooler & Schreiber 2”
Positive affect as implicit motivator: on the nonconscious operation of behavioral goals. (2005, background): “One reason for this is that many of our goals originate in the unconscious, and, hence, the actual source of our motivational behaviors may not be accessible to verbal report (Bargh, 1990; Wegner, 2002; Wilson, 2002).”
Affective Forecasting (2005, unknown): “Satiated shoppers underestimate how much they will want ice cream later in the week, andaddictswhohave just injected heroin underestimate how much they will crave the drug when they are deprived of it later (Gilbert, Gill, & Wilson, 2002; Loewenstein, O’Donoghue, & Rabin, 2003).”
Doing without Concepts (2009, background): “12 Haidt (2001) and Wilson (2002) have developed a rather different picture of System”
The role of automaticity in determining the inclination to forgive close others (2007, background): “Such a forgivenessattribution sequence is congruent with the general notion proposed in the literature that reasoning processes often are guided by intuitive, automatic aVective responses, rather than vice versa (e.g., Damasio, 1994; Wilson, 2002).”
The Disruptive Effect of Self-Objectification on Performance (2006, background): “…documented that when the self becomes an object of attention, either through prolonged rumination or self-objectification, people may be more inclined to experience negative affect, selfconsciousness, social anxiety, and poorer decision making (see Mor & Winquist, 2002; Wilson, 2002, for reviews).”