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Aronson of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We

Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.

She is also author of The Mismeasure of Woman and Anger:

The Misunderstood Emotion. Many of her book reviews and

opinion essays have been collected in Psychobabble and

Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues

Psychology in the Community

Maryanne garry earned her Ph.D. at the University

of Connecticut and did postdoctoral training at the Univer-

sity of Washington before moving to Victoria University of

Wellington, New Zealand. She is best known for her research

on the causes and consequences of false memories, includ-

ing “imagination inflation” and its dangers as a therapeu-

tic technique. She has served as director of the Innocence

Project New Zealand and has acted as an expert witness

in trials worldwide on the (un)reliability of human memory.

Dr. Garry has received her university’s Merit Awards for

Excellence in Research and for Excellence in Teaching.

carole Wade earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychol-

ogy at Stanford University. She began her academic career

at the University of New Mexico, where she taught courses

in psycholinguistics and developed the first course at the

university on the psychology of gender. She was professor

of psychology for 10 years at San Diego Mesa College and

then taught at College of Marin and Dominican University

of California. Dr. Wade has written and lectured widely on

Critical and Scientific Thinking in Psychology

cation. In addition to this text, she and Carol Tavris have

written Psychology; Psychology in Perspective; and The

Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective.

carol tavris earned her Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary

program in social psychology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Tavris writes and lectures extensively on diverse topics

in psychological science and critical thinking. In addition

to working with Carole Wade, she is coauthor with Elliot

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