Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

The Self-Justification Trap (Carol Tavris, PhD)

Listen now (53 mins) | “If we’re not open to discrepant, unwanted information that happens to be correct, we become unable to change our direction and change our minds.”

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Elise Loehnen
Oct 16, 2025
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Carol Tavris is such a legend, and so fun. Carol has worked as a social psychologist for decades and written several fascinating books. Today, we spend most of our time talking about the book she coauthored with Elliot Aronson called Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me: Why We Ju…

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