دانلود کتاب Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) : Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

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Cover
Title
Contents
Epigraph
Preface to the Revised Editions
Introduction: Knaves, Fools, Villains, and Hypocrites: How Do They Live with Themselves?
1. Cognitive Dissonance: The Engine of Self-Justification
Believing Is Seeing
Ingrid’s Choice, Nick’s Mercedes, and Elliot’s Canoe
Spirals of Violence—and Virtue
The Pyramid of Choice
2. Pride and Prejudice . . . and Other Blind Spots
The Road to St. Andrews
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
A Slip of the Brain
3. Memory, the Self-Justifying Historian
The Biases of Memory
True Stories of False Memories
4. Good Intentions, Bad Science: The Closed Loop of Clinical Judgment
The Problem of the Benevolent Dolphin
Science, Skepticism, and Self-justification
5. Law and Disorder
The Investigators
The Interrogators
The Prosecutors
Jumping to Convictions
6. Love’s Assassin: Self-Justification in Marriage
7. Wounds, Rifts, and Wars
Who Started This?
Perpetrators of Evil
Truth and Reconciliation
8. Letting Go and Owning Up
Mistakes Were Made—by Them
Mistakes Were Made—by Me
Act 2: The Arduous Journey to Self-Compassion
9. Dissonance, Democracy, and the Demagogue
The Pyramid of Choice, Once Again
Stepping Off the Pyramid: “The Democrats Are Worse”
Sliding Down the Pyramid: “He Has Eaten Your Soul”
Landing at the Base: “We Have Seen His Heart”
Stopping the Slide: “Look, This Is Bigger Than the Politics of the Day”
Acknowledgments
Notes
INTRODUCTION
1. COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: THE ENGINE OF SELF- JUSTIFICATION
2. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE . . . AND OTHER BLIND SPOTS
3. MEMORY, THE SELF-JUSTIFYING HISTORIAN
4. GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD SCIENCE: THE CLOSED LOOP OF CLINICAL JUDGMENT
5. LAW AND DISORDER
6. LOVE’S ASSASSIN: SELF-JUSTIFICATION IN MARRIAGE
7. WOUNDS, RIFTS, AND WARS
8. LETTING GO AND OWNING UP
9. DISSONANCE, DEMOCRACY, AND THE DEMAGOGUE
Index
About the Authors
Footnotes