All Carol Tavris Quotes
- Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences.… Behavior
- History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. History
- In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings… Calculus
- In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit… Apply
- Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. Armor
- During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying… Accusation
- Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is. Doubt
- Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts. Belief
- As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. Accusation
- The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence… All
- Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it… Action