Truth and Consequences: The Costs and Benefits of Accurate Self-Knowledge
- 1 December 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 21 (12), 1288-1296
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672952112006
Abstract
Accurate self-knowledge is widely assumed to be necessary, sought after, and characteristic of most people. In this article, the authors examine the logical and evidentiary basis of these assumptions and reach the opposite conclusions.Keywords
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