by Carol Tavris
Tavris and Aronson explore how cognitive dissonance drives people to justify mistakes rather than learn from them. Self-justification is an unconscious engine that distorts memory, fuels feuds, and corrupts institutions.
In this collection, Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) references 1 other book and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on Influence.
It’s picked up by The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and Influence.
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Lewis documents the same self-justifying confabulation Tavris describes in Mistakes Were Made, as bankers rationalized obviously flawed CDOs as sound innovations
Cialdini references Carol Tavris's Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) for the cognitive dissonance research that underpins his commitment and consistency chapter. Tavris's work on self-justification explains why small commitments grow into larger ones.
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