ISBN:

• 9780151010981
• 0151010986

Edition: First edition.

Description: x, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-276) and index.

Contents:

• Cognitive dissonance: the engine of self-justification
• Pride and prejudice-- and other blind spots
• Memory, the self-justifying historian
• Good intentions, bad science: the closed loop of clinical judgment
• Law and disorder
• Love's assassin: self-justification in marriage
• Wounds, rifts, and wars
• Letting go and owning up.

LCCN: 2006026953

Subjects:

• Cognitive dissonance.
• Self-deception.

Other Authors: Aronson, Elliot.