Focus on introspection came to the fore later
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10 December 2022 | New Scientist | 37 focus on introspection came to the fore later, in the 17th century, with René Descartes. “The idea that we sit and just reflect on ourselves, that navel-gazing, is distinctively modern and Western,” says Mitchell Green, a philosopher at the University of Connecticut who has studied self-knowledge. In one sense, it is impossible to avoid knowing yourself. You are constantly thinking about how you feel, what you are going to eat tonight and so on. In addition, we each have privileged knowledge of our own personal history, our own thoughts and feelings and what we get up to when no one else is looking. So you might think we know all there is to know about our true selves, which I am defining here not as some immutable inner essence, but as the way you typically think, feel and behave over years or decades. Your personality, in other words. And yet it is far from clear that we can gain an accurate picture even of that. For psychologists, the question is an empirical one. The trouble is that self- perception presents a particularly thorny case of the “criterion problem” – that is, how can you assess the accuracy of the way you perceive yourself without an objective criterion for comparison? In recent years, researchers have tried to overcome this by comparing self-perceptions with other people’s perceptions of you. “There is no direct pipeline to your true self,” says Simine Vazire, a psychologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. “How a group of other people, who know you well across different contexts and who have different biases to one another, see you might be the closest you can get to a good accuracy criterion for what you’re really like.” In a few studies, researchers have been able to compare self-perceptions with third- Download 0.95 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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