Cognitive Dissonance — Carol Tavris interview with D.J. Grothe
— Why we have so much trouble accepting information that conflicts with a belief we know for sure is right.
— The brains blind spots that make us unable to see our own prejudices, biases, corrupting influences, and hypocrisies.
— Why our memories tell more about what we believe now than what really happened then.
— How couples can break out of the spiral of blame and defensiveness.
— The evil that men and women can do in the name of God, country, and justice — and why they dont see their actions as evil at all.
— Why random acts of kindness create a virtuous cycle that perpetuates itself.
— How all of us can learn to own up and let go of the need to be right, and learn from the times we are wrong—so that we don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
Carol Tavris is a social psychologist, writer, and lecturer. Her books include the landmarkAnger: The Misunderstood Emotion and the award-winning The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex. She has written hundreds of articles, editorials, and book reviews for magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times op-ed page, Scientific American, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Skeptical Inquirer. An acclaimed lecturer, she has addressed general and professional audiences of all kinds—including attorneys, judges, physicians, psychologists, business leaders, and students—on many topics having to do with psychological research, including the difference between science and pseudoscience in psychology. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, and on the editorial board of Psychological Science in the Public Interest. She lives in Los Angeles.
http://www.mistakesweremadebutnotbyme.com/index.html
Douglas James “D.J.” Grothe is a writer and public speaker who talks about issues at the nexus of science, critical thinking, secularism, religion and the paranormal. He is Vice President and Director of Outreach Programs at the Center for Inquiry, a “think tank that advances science, reason and secular values in public affairs.” He is associate editor of Free Inquiry magazine, and lectures throughout North America at colleges and universities. He edited On the Beauty of Science, about the worldview and life’s work of Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman. He hosts the nationally popular radio show and podcast Point of Inquiry which features leading thinkers in the sciences, skepticism and humanism. He is a former professional magician and “psychic entertainer.”
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/
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