Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts 9780544574786, 9780547416038, 0547416032

""Entertaining, illuminating and--when you recognize yourself in the stories it tells--mortifying." --Wal

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Table of contents :
Machine generated contents note: 1.Cognitive Dissonance: The Engine of Self-Justification --
2.Pride and Prejudice . . . and Other Blind Spots --
3.Memory, the Self-Justifying Historian --
4.Good Intentions, Bad Science: The Closed Loop of Clinical Judgment --
5.Law and Disorder --
6.Love's Assassin: Self-Justification in Marriage --
7.Wounds, Rifts, and Wars --
8.Letting Go and Owning Up.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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