Carol Tavris

17 Sep 1944

Carol Tavris is a social psychologist, writer, and lecturer whose goal is to promote psychological science and critical thinking in improving our lives. She is coauthor, with Elliot Aronson, of "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by ME): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts." Her other major books include the landmark "Anger: The misunderstood emotion," a book well known for its critical look at unvalidated notions about the inevitability of anger and the need to "ventilate" it, and how anger can best be expressed constructively. She is also author of the award-winning "The

• Invitation to Psychology
• Psychology
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
• Anger
• Mistakes Were Made
• Estrogen matters
• Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology
• Perspectives to Psychology
• Mistakes Were Made
• Psychology in Perspective
• The longest war
• Anger, the misunderstood emotion