‘ John Bargh&s Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward A brilliant & convincing book’ – Malcolm Gladwell author of Blink & David & Goliath The world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind reveals the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behaviour For more than three decades Dr John Bargh has been conducting revolutionary research into the unconscious mind – not Freud’s dark malevolent unconscious but the new unconscious a helpful & powerful part of the mind that we can access & understand through experimental science Now Dr Bargh presents an engaging & enlightening tour of the influential psychological forces that are at work as we go about our daily lives – checking a dating app holding a cup of hot coffee or getting a flu shot Dr Bargh takes you into his labs at New York University & Yale where his ingenious experiments have shown how the unconscious guides our behaviour goals & motivations in areas like race relations parenting business consumer behaviour & addiction He reveals 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 & in job interviews & much more Before You Know It is full of surprising & entertaining revelations as well as tricks to help you remember to-do items shop smarter & sleep better Before You Know It will profoundly change the way you understand yourself by introducing you to a fascinating world only recently discovered the world that exists below the surface of your awareness & yet is the key to unlocking new ways of thinking feeling & behaving