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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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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Title remainder

why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts

Statement of responsibility

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

Instantiates

• Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts

Publication

• Orlando, Fla., Harcourt, c2007

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

Record ID

mistakesweremade00tavr

Specific material designation

remote

System control number

(OCoLC)1036705564