Self-insight roadblocks and detours on the path to knowing thyself
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 medica...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Psychology Press
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Essays in social psychology.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798050906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 Thales's Lament; Evidence of Inaccurate Self-Views; Correlational Evidence; Overconfidence; The Journey Ahead; CHAPTER 2 Ignorance as Bliss; The Anosognosia of Everyday Life; Awareness among the Incompetent: Empirical Studies; Complaints; Evidence for Metacognitive Deficits Among the Incompetent; Assessing Metacognitive Skill; Altering Metacognitive Skill; Further Complaints; When People Recognize Their Incompetence; The Burden of the Highly Competent; Other Processes That Interfere with Self-Insight
- DenialErrors of Omission; Concluding Remarks; Endnote; CHAPTER 3 Clues for Competence; This Chapter's Agenda; Basing Confidence on Explicit Reasoning; Our Knowledge Is Accurate, but Incomplete; Our Knowledge Is Largely Accurate but Has a Few "Bugs"; Our Knowledge Is Only "Pseudorelevant"; The Problem of Confirmatory Bias; Basing Confidence on Fluency; Problems; Recent Exposure Can Mislead; Repetition Can Mislead; Implications for Learning; Top-Down Confidence: The Use of Pre-Existing Self-Views; Altering Performance Estimates by Playing with Self-Views; Problems with Self-Perceived Expertise
- Societal ConsequencesConcluding Remarks; CHAPTER 4 The Dearest Teacher; Learning from Experience: Some Data; Why Feedback Fails to Inform; Feedback Is Probabilistic; Feedback Is Incomplete; Feedback Is Hidden; Feedback Is Ambiguous; Feedback Is Absent; Feedback Is Biased; Flawed Habits in Monitoring Feedback; People Focus on Positive Co-occurrences; People Create Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; People Fail to Recognize Their Mistakes in Hindsight; People Disproportionately Seek Feedback Consistent with Their Self-Image; People Accept Positive Feedback, Scrutinize Negative
- People Code Positive Actions Broadly, Negative Ones NarrowlyPeople Attribute Positive Outcomes to Self, Negative Ones to Anyone or Anything Else; People Misremember Feedback; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 5 False Uniqueness; Controllability; Missing Insights; Beliefs About Others; Beliefs About the Self; Overcoming the Controllability Bias; A Digression About Comparative Judgment; Egocentric Thought; Observability; Pluralistic Ignorance; Emotion; Uncertainty and Ambivalence; Inhibition; Consequences; Interventions; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 6 In a Word; The Vagueness of Traits; Judging Others
- Self-BiasThe Genesis of Self-Serving Trait Definitions; Vertical Versus Horizontal Ambiguity; Consequences; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 7 The Merest Decency; The Moral Pedestal; Moral Behavior Is Desirable; Moral Behavior Is Controllable; Moral Behavior Is Ambiguous; A Vexing Ambiguity; Which Error Is It?; Basic Findings; Sensitivity to Moral Principles Versus Self-Interest; Why Wrong About the Self?; A Surprising Competence; Internal Versus External Approaches to Prediction; The Neglect of Distributional Information; Application to Moral Prediction
- Accentuating the Positive a Little Too Much
