Limitations on verbal reports of internal events: A refutation of Nisbett and Wilson and of Bem

Psychological Review 87 (1):105-112 (1980)
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Abstract

Discusses R. E. Nisbett and T. D. Wilson's work on the limitations to conscious awareness of mental processes. In particular, it is suggested that their theoretical stance is not clearly formulated, that they make unwarranted assumptions about the relationship between conscious awareness and the process and the verbal report, and that their experiments do not provide information on consciousness. Some methodological recommendations are listed, and a brief report is given of some experimental findings that run counter to those of Nisbett and Wilson and also to those of D. Bem in regard to his "self-perception theory."

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