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Beyond the justification hypothesis: A broader theory of the evolution of self‐consciousness

Author(s) -

Vazire Simine,

Robins Richard W.

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

journal of clinical psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124

H-Index - 119

eISSN - 1097-4679

pISSN - 0021-9762

DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20072

Subject(s) - psychology , consciousness , psychoanalysis , epistemology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , philosophy , neuroscience

We evaluate Henriques' Justification Hypothesis (JH; this issue) and argue that his explanation for the evolution of self‐consciousness is overly narrow and the evolutionary sequence of events is backwards. Instead, we propose a broader theory of the evolution of self‐consciousness, with four categories of adaptive functions: (a) self‐regulation, (b) selective information processing, (c) understanding others, and (d) identity formation. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.

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