Books I might get for my social cognition PhD generals
Discover essential reads for your social cognition PhD generals exam, featuring Daniel Gilbert's *Stumbling on Happiness*, Daniel Schacter's *The Seven Sins of Memory*, and Timothy Wilson's *Strangers to Ourselves*. Explore key psychology texts on memory, self-knowledge, and cognitive biases to master core concepts in social cognition research.
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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Todd Gilbert
A witty reflection on human nature describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.
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The Seven Sins of Memory
by Daniel L. Schacter
Examines what the author terms "common memory vices," including absent-mindedness, transcience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence, applying experimental evidence to discuss such high-visibility cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and President Clinton's grand jury testimony. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Strangers to Ourselves
by Timothy D. Wilson
"Is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover? In a tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces a hidden mental world of judgements, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show."--Global Books in Print.
