Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - February 2011 - Volume 34, Issue 01  

Open Peer Commentary

A single self-deceived or several subselves divided?

Douglas T. Kenricka1 and Andrew E. Whitea1

a1 Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282. douglas.kenrick@asu.edu aewhite7@asu.edu http://douglaskenrick.faculty.asu.edu/?q=node/10

Abstract

Would we lie to ourselves? We don't need to. Rather than a single self equipped with a few bivariate processes, the mind is composed of a dissociated aggregation of subselves processing qualitatively different information relevant to different adaptive problems. Each subself selectively processes the information coming in to the brain as well as information previously stored in the brain.

(Online publication February 03 2011)

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