"In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments,……" — Carol Tavris
"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 it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ..."
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Carol Tavris
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11 Quotes by Carol Tavris
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Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular…
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify…
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Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs…
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Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
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Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
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As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency…
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Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course…
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