Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (Paperback)

from rzperllian

I picked this book up because Malcolm Gladwell recommended it on his website. It's an excellent look at relatively current psychological research on how the mind works, and I've been finding useful applications in my daily life as I go along. It's an easy, engaging read , not too academic.

from rivkat

Interesting look at the ways we can misperceive ourselves-our beliefs, our traits, our dependence on external conditions. Though there's nothing particularly new here if you read a lot of behavioral psych, Wilson looks at behavioral issues from the perspective of a theoretician interested in whet...

from rayski

Very textbook like, too clinical, not the self help book I was hoping for. It's about the adaptive unconscious and trying to recognize it and changing it.

from leapinglemur

Interesting ideas but wanted further reading and the bibliography is slim.

from dsmccoy

Excellent book by a very influential psychologist. I'm finding this in the bibliography of more and more books that I like. Malcolm Gladwell recommends this book highly. I recommend you read this book instead of Gladwell's Blink, since Gladwell seems to ignore much of what Wilson actually has to ...