Self-insight : roadblocks and detours on the path to knowing thyself / David Dunning.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Dunning, David (David A.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Psychology Press, 2005.
Series:Essays in social psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Thale's lament : on the vagaries of self-assessment
  • ch. 2. Ignorance as bliss
  • ch. 3. Clues for competence
  • ch. 4. The dearest teacher
  • ch. 5. False uniqueness
  • ch. 6. In a word
  • ch. 7. The merest decency
  • ch. 8. Beyond one's self
  • ch. 9. Reflections on self-reflection.