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 ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, social psychologist and writer Carol Tavris has questioned the prescriptions of pop-psych practitioners Shere Hite, Nancy Friday and other best-selling authors whose self-help ...

We hope you enjoy this article from The Times Literary Supplement, free to subscribers of The Wall Street Journal. At the end of “Plucked: A history of hair removal” Rebecca M. Herzig describes the ...

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 ...

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 ...