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Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
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- Summary
- Explains how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assesses the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveals how it can be overcome
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Link
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- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-d.html
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026953.html
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-b.html
- https://archive.org/details/mistakesweremade00tavr
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7362572M
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-s.html
- Label
- Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
- Title
- Mistakes were made (but not by me)
- Title remainder
- why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
- Statement of responsibility
- Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Explains how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assesses the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveals how it can be overcome
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tavris, Carol
- Dewey number
- 153
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- BF337.C63
- LD571
- LC item number
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- T38 2007
- .B743 no.642
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Aronson, Elliot
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cognitive dissonance
- Self-deception
- Fouten
- Vergissingen
- Rechtvaardiging
- Label
- Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
- Link
-
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-d.html
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026953.html
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-b.html
- https://archive.org/details/mistakesweremade00tavr
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7362572M
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-s.html
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-276) and index
- Contents
- 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
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036705564
- Label
- Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
- Link
-
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-d.html
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026953.html
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-b.html
- https://archive.org/details/mistakesweremade00tavr
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7362572M
- http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2006026953-s.html
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-276) and index
- Contents
- 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
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036705564
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