BESTSELLING COURSE!
MISTAKES WERE MADE (BUT NOT BY ME)
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Harcourt Books, 2007
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Learn how the brain is wired for self-justification
• Learn how this mechanism impedes the ability to correct mistakes, self-defeating behavior, and unvalidated practices
• Learn why some public figures are unable to take responsibility for their actions
• Learn why endless marital quarrels over who is right continue
• Learn why one can see hypocrisy in others, but not in oneself
• Recognize that when people make mistakes, they tend to create stories to absolve responsibility and restore the belief that they are smart, moral, and right.
• Deny responsibility for mistakes keeps one on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong.
• Learn how this happens, the harms caused, and how to overcome it.
Carol Tavris, Ph.D., is a social psychologist who lectures and writes on many aspects of psychology. She is the author of several books including Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, The Mismeasure of Woman and co-author of two leading psychology textbooks.
Elliot Aronson is Professor Emeritus at University of California at Santa Cruz and Visiting Professor, Stanford University. His numerous publications include The Social Animal and Nobody Left to Hate (on the Columbine murders). He was chosen by his peers as one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the twentieth century.
10 CE Credits; 304 pages
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