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Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, And Hurtful Acts (2007)

by Carol Tavris(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0156033909 (ISBN13: 9780156033909)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: This year I started to be more interested in social psychology books in my hope to change my default sitting to the world and understand it better, and what better way than saying I was wrong to your self and owning the mistakes to your self...Its a very challenging book to read its started to with an eases of pointing the mistakes of politics and countries and introducing the conformation biases then going to personal stories that we are confined that happened when all evidenced are against.One of the psychological insights that has been messing around with my mind is the selective memory and that even if you feel strongly sure and emotionally attached to it can be wrong or even planted made me question my memories and if I am a hypocrite the explanation for people's unwi... morellingness to admit mistakes, even to themselves, in a variety of realms. This far-reaching BOOK tackles irrational prejudices, false memories, misjudgement as a psychotherapist, prosecuting the wrong individual, blaming one's spousethe part of repressed memory therapy of rape victimise was eye opening for me as how easy for as to follow :Cognitive dissonanceConfirmation biasI read in the book "thinking fast and slow " that knowing this biases dose not stop you form doing it even for the experts in this felid but it can make you stop your self and question why you think or act this way, and that is about it what you can do!!
review 2: I felt won over by this book's general argument, but it was too far ranging in its examples. It could have been much tighter and convincing if it had avoided reaching far back into history or extrapolating into geopolitics. That kind of search for relevance gave the authors less room to provide further proof points and made the overall argument come off as a theory of everything. It also would have been nice for them to have done more to acknowledge the limits of their theory. less

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