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Carol Tavris

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September 17, 1944

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Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary program in social psychology at the University of Michigan, and ever since has sought to bring research from the many fields of psychology to the public. She is author of The Mismeasure of Woman, which won the Distinguished Media Contribution Award from the American Association from Applied and Preventive Psychology, and the Heritage Publications Award from Division 35 of the APA. Dr. Tavris is also the author of Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion and coauthor with Carole Wade of Invitation to Psychology; Psychology in Perspective; Critical and Creative Thinking: The case of love and war; and The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective. She has written on psychological topics for many...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,774 ratings · 274 reviews · 63 distinct works

	Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson 4.06 avg rating — 1,528 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Mismeasure of Women: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex 4.10 avg rating — 150 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion 3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective by Carol Tavris, Carole Wade 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically about Issues in the News 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Psychology in Perspective by Carol Tavris, Carole Wade 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychological Science to Think Critically about Popular Psychology 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Redbook Report on Female Sexuality: 100,000 Married Women Disclose the Good News about Sex 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	MyPsychLab with Pearson eText Student Access Code Card for Psychology by Carol Tavris, Carole Wade 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.”
― Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

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