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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris
🧠Psychology~464 pages
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Why do people cling to beliefs that have been disproved, and insist they were right all along? Two social psychologists take the theory of cognitive dissonance and follow it into prosecutors who will not revisit a conviction, therapists who trust unreliable memories, doctors who defend a bad diagnosis and couples rewriting their own history. Each chapter builds the same argument from fresh ground, showing self-justification as a mechanism rather than a character flaw. Briskly written and full of unsettling case material, it is an accessible work of argument that asks readers to examine their own reasoning.
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