Book Titles

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

By Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

Year Published: 2020
ISBN-13: 978-0544574786
Categories: Justification, Mistakes, Psychology

124 Quotes Found

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Mistakes Were Made (but not by me):

Dissonance may be hardwired, but how we think about mistakes is not.

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Mistakes Were Made (but not by me):

In the final analysis, a nation’s character, and an individual’s integrity, do not depend on being error free. It depends on what we do after making the error.

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Mistakes Were Made (but not by me):

Demagogues, by definition, need adoring crowds, and they create them by using the timeless method of arousing fear.

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Mistakes Were Made (but not by me):

Most people who get caught in a lie, mistake, or hypocritical dance feel sharp dissonance and are motivated to squirm out of it with a flurry of self-justification.

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