1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Law and the Inability to Admit Mistakes
Dissonance explains why we lie to ourselves. That's why it's so pernicious and so dangerous and so important to understand. And so we've done politics and the law and doomsday, calts, love lives, marriages. Oh, ever happen that we a disnaansano, no costin just not one more thing about the law,. Though this is so important, throughout the legal system and in the military. A once people believe that they are interrogating a guilty person, nothing that person does or says willdis irm their belief. What if it's a sign of nervousness, s e arrested and you're innocenterit the alternative explanaaion
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