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Author:
Tavris, Carol.
Title:
Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts / Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
Edition:
1st Harvest ed.
Publisher:
Harcourt,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
x, 292 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Cognitive dissonance.
Self-deception.
Other Authors:
Aronson, Elliot.
Notes:
Originally published: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-276) and index.
Contents:
Knaves, fools, villains and hypocrites : how do they live with themselves? -- Cognitive dissonance : the engine of self-justification -- Pride and prejudice-- and other blind spots -- Memory, the self-justifying historian -- Good intentions, bad science : the closed loop of clinical judgment -- Law and disorder -- Love's assassin : self-justification in marriage -- Wounds, rifts, and wars -- Letting go and owning up.
Summary:
Two distinguished psychologists look at the role of self-justification in human life, explaining how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assess the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveal how it can be overcome.
Series:
A Harvest book
ISBN:
0156033909 (pbk.)
9780156033909 (pbk.) :
OCLC:
(OCoLC)154746792
Locations:
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)
GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

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