Before You Know It, John Bargh
Before You Know It, John Bargh
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Before You Know It
The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

Author: John Bargh

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/17/2017


Synopsis

Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a “brilliant and convincing book” (Malcolm Gladwell) cited as an outstanding read of 2017 by Business Insider and The Financial Times—giving us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.

For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has conducted revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research featured in bestsellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. Now, in what Dr. John Gottman said was “the most important and exciting book in psychology that has been written in the past twenty years,” Dr. Bargh takes us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the forces that affect everyday behavior while transforming our understanding of ourselves in profound ways.

Dr. Bargh takes us into his labs at New York University and Yale—where he and his colleagues have discovered how the unconscious guides our behavior, goals, and motivations in areas like race relations, parenting, business, consumer behavior, and addiction. With infectious enthusiasm he reveals what science now knows about the pervasive influence of the unconscious mind in who we choose to date or vote for, what we buy, where we live, how we perform on tests and in job interviews, and much more. Because the unconscious works in ways we are completely unaware of, Before You Know It is full of surprising and entertaining revelations as well as useful tricks to help you remember items on your to-do list, to shop smarter, and to sleep better.

Before You Know It is “a fascinating compendium of landmark social-psychology research” (Publishers Weekly) and an introduction to a fabulous world that exists below the surface of your awareness and yet is the key to knowing yourself and unlocking new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

About John Bargh

John Bargh, PhD, is an award-winning social psychologist and the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind. His research has appeared in over 190 publications. He is currently the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation) laboratory. Before You Know It is his first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julian on February 01, 2022

Everyone should read this book. In the first part of the book I learned how easily manipulated people can be by priming. The second half of the book refers to the conscious and unconscious minds, helps you understand them, and makes suggestions about using your unconscious mind to help you achieve y......more

Goodreads review by R on January 04, 2022

For someone reading about this topic for the first time this book is excellent since all the major recent research results are collected in here. But for those familiar with books by Kahneman and others there is not a lot that is new here. However, after Doyen et. al. failed to replicate the priming......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on February 17, 2018

This book is a great middle of the road between Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. It offers some great, research-based insights about how the unconscious mind operates and also some great strategies for how to build/break habits and help the unconscious mind work for you, not against you. I highly r......more

Goodreads review by John on January 13, 2018

Miss this book and miss what you are and have been and ever can be. Ten years in the making, summarizes all that Kahneman and Tversky and others have taught in recent decades about where our decisions are conscious (rarely) and where they are unconscious (mostly). Much of the research was done by Ba......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on March 07, 2018

This book summarized Bargh’s life work on the subconscious. I learnt a great deal from it. There are 2 persons inside each of us: the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious is thoughtful, takes effort and is narrow in scope. It is good for doing maths. The unconscious does not require active t......more