Is Your Partner Disagreeing With You?

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All of us do things that the other person is annoyed by or doesn't agree with. The question is whether, ah, you come to see those things as as behaviours that are too dissonant to live with. And so everything then gets rewritten to conform to the new tory. You can see what happens when people have made the decision to divorce and immediately forget everything they ever once loved about the person. It's not just high stakes a court room dramas. In our everyday lives and our personal lives and marriages, this is going to be something where our partner accuses us of a certain kind of behaviour. Maybe there's a twinge of truth to that a ation, and we're

For the first full episode of Mindscape, it's an honor to welcome social psychologist Carol Tavris. Her book with co-author Eliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), explores the effect that cognitive dissonance has on how we think. We talk about the fascinating process by which people justify the mistakes that they make, and how that leads to everything from false memories to political polarization. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/seancarroll/carol-tavris.mp3" social_email="true" hashtag="mindscapepodcast" ] Carol Tavris received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. She is the author of numerous books, covering topics such as gender, biology, and emotion, and is a frequent contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Carol Tavris on Wikipedia Social Psychology Network profile Amazon.com author page A lecture on "Dissent and Dissonance: The Science and Art of Argument." Download Episode See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.