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| Author | Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson |
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| Cover artist | Jennifer Jackman |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Psychology |
| Publisher | Harcourt |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 298 |
| ISBN | 978-0-15-101098-1 |
| OCLC | 71005837 |
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| LC Class | BF337.C63 T38 2007 |
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) is a 2007 non-fiction book by social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. It deals with cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and other cognitive biases, using these psychological theories to illustrate how the perpetrators (and victims) of hurtful acts justify and rationalize their behavior. It describes a positive feedback loop of action and self-deception by which slight differences between people's attitudes become polarized.