Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 04/15/07
6 x 9 · 304 pages
978-0-15-101098-1 CDN $27.95 · cl

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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

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Renowned psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a deep and engaging look into how the brain is wired for self-justification and reveal the ways and whys of how we lie to ourselves.

Delivered in lively, energetic prose, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception.

Carol Tavris (Los Angeles) is a social psychologist and author of Anger and The Mismeasure of Woman.

Elliot Aronson (Santa Cruz) is one of the world’s most distinguished social psychologists and author of The Social Animal.