This authoritative handbook reviews the state of the science of self-knowledge, a key emerging area in psychology. Leading investigators describe innovative theory and research that is shedding new light on how-and how accurately-people perceive their own traits, thoughts, feelings, behavior, and relationships. Coverage encompasses the behavioral, mental, biological, and social structures that underlie self-knowledge; approaches to studying self-beliefs in specific domains; and the motives and biases that influence accuracy. The volume explores the personal and societal benefits of self-knowledge and also considers possible ways to enhance it.
1. Introduction, Simine Vazire and Timothy D. WilsonI. The Origins and Nature of Self-Knowledge2. The Development of Self-Knowledge, Daniel Hart and M. Kyle Matsuba3. Self-Insight from a Dual-Process Perspective, Bertram Gawronski and Galen V. Bodenhausen4. Referential Processing and Competence as Determinants of Congruence between Implicit and Explicit Motives, Oliver C. Schultheiss and Alexandra Strasser5. Self-Knowledge: From Philosophy to Neuroscience to Psychology, Matthew D. Lieberman6. Blind Spots to the Self: Limits in Knowledge of Mental Contents and Personal Predispositions, Jason Chin, Michael Mrazek and Jonathan Schooler7. Other People as a Source of Self-Knowledge, Sanjay Srivastava8. Self-Knowledge: An Individual-Differences Perspective, Roberta A. Schriber and Richard W. RobinsII. Domains of Self-Knowledge9. Knowing Our Personality, Mitja D. Back and Simine Vazire10. Knowing Our Attitudes and How to Change Them, Pablo Brinol and Richard E. Petty11. Self-Knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making, Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis12. Knowing Our Emotions: How Do We Know What We Feel?, Gerald L. Clore and Michael D. Robinson13. On (Not) Knowing and Feeling What We Want and Like, Galit Hofree and Piotr Winkielman14. Partner Knowledge and Relationship Outcomes, Jeffry A. Simpson, Jennifer Fillo, and John Myers15. Meta-Accuracy: Do We Know How Others See Us?, Erika N. Carlson and David A. Kenny16. Knowing Our Pathology, Thomas F. Oltmanns and Abigail D. PowersIII. Knowing Our Past and Future Selves17. Affective Forecasting: Knowing How We Will Feel in the Future, Kostadin Kushlev and Elizabeth W. Dunn18. Past Selves and Autobiographical Memory, Colleen M. Kelley and Larry L. Jacoby19. Self-Conceptualization, Self-Knowledge, and Regulatory Scope: A Construal-Level View, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Yaacov Trope, and Nira Liberman20. Sitting at the Nexus of Epistemological Traditions: Narrative Psychological Perspectives on Self-Knowledge, Jonathan M. AdlerIV. Motives and Biases in Self-Knowledge21. Illusions of Self-Knowledge, Katherine E. Hansen and Emily Pronin22. Classic Self-Deception Revisited, Delroy L. Paulhus and Erin Buckels23. On Motivated Reasoning and Self-Belief, Erik G. Helzer and David Dunning24. From "Out There" to "In Here": Implications of Self-Evaluation Motives for Self-Knowledge, Michael J. Strube25. Reducing Egoistic Biases in Self-Beliefs, Mark R. Leary and Kaitlin Toner
