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Outgrowing Self-Deception

by Gardner Murphy, Morton Leeds. 175 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Gardner Murphy, Morton Leeds

Publisher:

   Basic Books

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1975
Subjects:   Self-Deception, Self-Perception
Table of contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE Xl
CHAPTER I The Too-Muchness of Reality The Need for Blinders 4 · The Autokinetic Effect 7 · Screening In and Screening Out 3
CHAPTER 2 The Joy of the Real Are the Senses "Deceivers"? II · Personal Reality 12 · The Delight of Differentiation I3 · Feelings about the Self 15 · Progressive Mastery 16 · Structure 17 · Curiosity I8 · The Constancies 19 · The Seeking of Good Form 10
CHAPTER 3 The Emergence of Self-Awareness Differentiation of the Mother and the Self · The Artful Dodger 27 · The Spider of Self 29 · "Self-Regarding Sentiment " 30 · The Complexity of Self-Deception Skills · Consensual Validation 24
CHAPTER 4 The Fine Art of Self-Deception Muscle Sensations 37 · The Attack upon Memory 39 · The Tones of Strange Languages 40 · Examples from Anthropology 35
CHAPTER 5 Self-Deception and the Laboratory Sources of Inner Information 48 · Evolutionary Psychology 49 · Generic versus Individualized Perception 51 · Some Experimental Evidence 53 · Directional Effects Look-Avoidance 56 · Attention 46
CHAPTER 6 The Role of the Voluntary Muscles 6 I Relaxation and Memory 62 · Breathing Patterns 64 · Unconscious Training 65 · The Endless Fencing Game 67 · The Rejection of Rejection 68 · Muscles as Generators of Noise 70 · Postural Set 72 · Positive Response to Reality 74 · The Interaction of Brain and Muscle 75 · The Split within the System 77 · The Use and Misuse of Information Theory 78 · The Control of Muscle Tension 80
CHAPTER 7 William James and the Message in the Margin of Awareness From the Vaguely to the Clearly Conscious 87 · Feedback and the James Theory · The Use of Modern Instrumentation 91 · Centering in the Will 93 · The World of Conflict 97 · Overload in the Channel 84
CHAPTER 8 Everyday Ways of Coping with Self‐ Deception Fiat 101 · Opposing One's Own Bias 101 · Intellectualizing 102 · Confronting Oneself in the Mirror 102 · Having Others Tell Us I03 · Evidence Testing 103 · Logic · Inductive Scientific Method 104 · Noting 100
CHAPTER 9 Discipline and Individuality Varieties of Discipline 119 · The Discipline of Relativity 122 · The Discipline of Individuality 125 · Individual Differences 127 · Developing Straight Thinking 117
CHAPTER 10 External Forces and Internal Change Instant Reappraisal 133 · The Perception of We and They 135 · Self-Perception of Difference 136 · In and Out of Religious Belief 137 132
CHAPTER II The (Usually) Undeceived: The Lifetime Search Socrates 142 · Stoics and Epicureans 143 · Copernicus and Galileo 145 · Franklin · Darwin 150 · Freud 153 · Einstein · Asian Approaches to Self-Understanding I56 · How Fast Can One Move? 159 · The Possibilities of the Examined Life 140
ADDITIONAL READINGS 165
PERMISSIONS 167
INDEX 169
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