Carol Tavris is a social psychologist, writer, and lecturer whose goal is to promote psychological science and critical thinking in improving our lives. She is coauthor, with Elliot Aronson, of "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by ME): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts," and, with Avrum Bluming, the forthcoming "Estrogen Matters." Her other major books include the landmark "Anger: The misunderstood emotion," a book well known for its critical look at unvalidated notions about the inevitability of anger and the need to "ventilate" it, and how anger can best be expressed constructively. She is also author of the award-winning "The Mismeasure of Woman: Why women are not the better sex, the inferior sex, or the opposite sex," and coauthor of two widely used textbooks, with Carole Wade, for introductory psychology. She has written hundreds of essays and book reviews on topics in psychological science, and is a highly regarded lecturer who has spoken to groups around the world, from New Zealand to Finland. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
Elliot Aronson is a social psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Stanford University. He has previously taught at Harvard, the University of Texas and the University of Minnesota. As a researcher, he is best known for his groundbreaking research on social influence and persuasion as well as for the invention of the jigsaw classroom (a strategy for reducing prejudice in public schools).
He has written 22 books including The Social Animal, Age of Propaganda (with Anthony Pratkanis), Nobody Left to Hate, The Adventures of Ruthie and a Little Boy Named Grandpa (with his 7-year-oldgranddaughter, Ruth Aronson, and Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me (with Carol Tavris).
Aronson is the only person in the 120-year history of the American Psychological Association to have received all three of its highest awards: For Distinguished Research, Distinguished Teaching, and Distinguished Writing. In 1981, he was named Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Among his other awards are the Gordon Allport prize for his contributions to inter-racial harmony and the William James Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science (2007). Recently, his peers named him as one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the 20th Century.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
has served as President of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology as well as President of the Western Psychological Association.
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell?
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.
Backed by years of research and delivered in lively, energetic prose, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception—how it works, the harm it can cause, and how we can overcome it.
亲密关系里的感情背叛 阿伟在一月前坦白了自己的那段情感出轨,但他发现,至今自己的女友小燕仍在生气,他们的每一次谈话最终都会转移到这件事上来。他每次与女友的目光接触,都会看到她的眼睛里充满了猜疑和痛苦。女友难道认识不到这只是一个小错误吗?他并不是这个星球上第...
评分我们的人类是用尽一生来证明自身的存在不是荒谬的一种动物。 —— Albert Camus 我们都会相信那些我们认为并不真实的事情,并且,当它们最终被证实是错误的时候,我们便会不顾一切地歪曲事实以...
评分《错不下我》这本书,是我近期读来,最好的一本书之一。里面的内容从解释为什么“骗子、傻子、歹徒会容忍自己的行为,到解释自我辩护的原动力,到一些具体的场景之下,”自我辩护“的各种模样(诸如司法体系、婚姻、创伤、战争等),到最后究竟该如何放弃自我辩护。 自我辩护...
评分因为犯过错,因为还在错误中煎熬,因为将来不可避免得还会犯错,所以我会对人类行差踏错的根源以及犯错后又会如何应对比较好奇。 近来陆续读了两本与错误有关的书,一本是普利策新闻奖得主Joseph T. Hallinan的《Why We Make Mistakes》, 用丰富的事例举证了人类怎样思考,怎...
评分书中对加入兄弟会的研究表明,加入越是困难,加入成员对组织的认同度越是高。 宣泄假说被彻底推翻,与没有机会表达愤怒的人们相比,那些被允许表达自己对卡恩愤怒的人对他更加深恶痛绝。由于学生们认为自己已经给卡恩带来了麻烦,因此他们不得不为自己的行为辩护,让自己相...
Confirmation Bias,这个确实太强大了,要如何对抗呢?
评分原本希望这本书讲更多的关于cognitive dissonance的,全书还是太浅,只讲到sefl-justification部分,例子太话唠。大约读第一章和最后一章即可。
评分认知失调
评分Confirmation Bias,这个确实太强大了,要如何对抗呢?
评分篇幅可以缩减1/3,为了论证自己的观点,confirmation bias,self-justification,有些例子与论段比较牵强(夫妻关系的部分)。一个有益的观点是,你与你的错误,应该分开来看,你的错误不能完全代表你是谁(我觉得这个也取决于是什么错误吧)
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