In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings …

- Carol Tavris

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

- Carol Tavris

The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to no…

- Carol Tavris

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more…

- Carol Tavris

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find t…

- Carol Tavris

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. …

- Carol Tavris

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

- Carol Tavris

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

- Carol Tavris

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

- Carol Tavris