{"id":568,"date":"2007-07-18T03:05:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=568"},"modified":"2007-07-18T03:05:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T01:05:59","slug":"carol-tavris-and-elliot-aronson-mistakes-were-made-but-not-by-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson &#8211; Mistakes were made (but not by me) (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/wp-content\/aronson_cover.150.jpg\" alt=\"aronson_cover.150.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/> This book about cognitive dissonance is a good read, and an interesting account of both the theory of why our decisions and opinions can be so much at odds with reality sometimes and a number of examples from history and daily life, where the principle can be observed in action. Yet through much of it, it felt like being a bit lost in someones attempt to make sense of the subject, and as though going to Festinger&#8217;s original work might be more illuminating. This in spite of the fact that I don&#8217;t think he ever wrote something comprehensive like this on top of his individual studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book about cognitive dissonance is a good read, and an interesting account of both the theory of why our decisions and opinions can be so much at odds with reality sometimes and a number of examples from history and daily life, where the principle can be observed in action. Yet through much of it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,22,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-englisch","category-good","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}