A social psychologist who, with Timothy D. Wilson, examined limits on people’s reports of their own cognitive processes. Their analysis argued that explanations of judgments can draw on plausible causal beliefs rather than direct access to the processes producing a judgment. This distinguishes a sincere verbal explanation from independent evidence of a cognitive mechanism.[ref]
Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes by Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy D. Wilson. 1977, argument and reviewed experiments, pp. 231–259
Portrait of Richard E. Nisbett
. UQx Think101, frame from an interview with Richard Nisbett. CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
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