Mistakes were made (but not by me) third edition : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts / Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson.
By: Tavris, Carol [author.].
Contributor(s): Aronson, Elliot [author.].
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BookPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.Description: x, 450 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780358329619; 9780151010981; 9780156033909; 9780544574786.Subject(s): Cognitive dissonance | Self-deception | Thought and thinkingDDC classification: 153 Summary: "Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right-a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong"-- Provided by publisher.
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Revised edition of the authors' Mistakes were made (but not by me), [2015]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right-a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong"-- Provided by publisher.
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