Is There a Toolkit or a Check List for Justifying Behavior?

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The goal of being open minded is to make ourselves open to other people's points of view without the dissonance, reduction reaction. Ike: If you can surround yourself with people who aren't yea sayers, who aren't just going to agree with you, but who might show you where you might be wrong, that's extremely useful. And then we have the idea of persuading others, we alsohave the idea of fixing ourselves,. I've been in the crowd when you've given talks to audiences, a tam for example, and it's amazing. You know, you explain how cognitive dissodence makes people justify their mistakes and things like that, and everyone in th audience is going

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.