SELF-KNOWLEDGE OF AN AMNESIC PATIENT - TOWARD A NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGY

The authors present the case of W.J., who, as a result of a head injur y, temporarily lost access to her episodic memory. W.J. was asked both during her amnesia and following its resolution to make trait judgmen ts about herself. Because her responses when she could access episodic memories were consistent with her responses when she could not, the a uthors conclude that the loss of episodic memory did not greatly affec t the availability of her trait self-knowledge. The authors discuss ho w neuropsychological evidence can contribute to theorizing about perso nality and social processes.