Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.

My guest is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, on how to admit mistakes instead of continuing to make them. She talks about common ways we make errors in reasoning and judgment that mess up our lives, and how to avoid them.

Her terrific book, co-authored with Dr. Elliot Aronson, is one of my favorites: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.

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Escaping The Mistake-Making Loop, with Dr. Carol Tavris

by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon
September 7, 2016

<h1>Escaping The Mistake-Making Loop, with Dr. Carol Tavris</h1> <p class="byline">by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />September 7, 2016</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p>Welcome to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2016/08/29/escaping-the-mistake-making-loop-with-dr-carol-tavris" target="_blank">HumanLab: The Science Between Us</a>, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.</p> <p>My guest is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, on how to admit mistakes instead of continuing to make them. She talks about common ways we make errors in reasoning and judgment that mess up our lives, and how to avoid them.</p> <p>Her terrific book, co-authored with Dr. Elliot Aronson, is one of my favorites: <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0156033909?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0156033909&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl&amp;sa-no-redirect=1&amp;tag=advicegoddess-20" target="_blank">Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/escaping-the-mistake-making-loop-with-dr-carol-tavris-2754764/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=17228&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/escaping-the-mistake-making-loop-with-dr-carol-tavris-2754764/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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