Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris are social psychologists. Their book, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, has just been released by ...

When I was a young social psychologist and feminist in the 1970s, I never imagined that I would be asked to testify for the defense in a rape case. Rape laws at the time still included the “marital ...

To the editor: In the Op-Ed, Carol Tavris describes a trial in which the alleged rapist is acquitted partly because his victim was “taller and heavier than he.” (“What we talk about when we talk about ...

Just a few days after my column discussing how rape accusations are rarely as black and white as some would have it, Carol Tavris publishes a fantastic piece in the L.A. Times titled “What we talk ...

Fyre Fest, Theranos, catfishing, cons, fake-news claims both false and legitimate: The 2010s have been a decade of seemingly unprecedented uncertainty about what’s real. Books by Lee McIntyre and ...