Carol Tavris

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Carol Tavris (born 1944) is an American social psychologist and author. She received a Ph.D in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and has taught psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the New School for Social Research. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the Center for Inquiry and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.

Her most well-known book, The Mismeasure of Woman (the title is a play on Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man) argues in favor of egalitarian feminism and against theories that advocate biological reductionism to explain differences between men and women. She has also co-authored four psychology textbooks with Carole Wade.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts (with Elliot Aronson) Harcourt, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-15-101098-1)
  • The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective (with Carole Wade) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977) (ISBN 0-15-551182-3)
  • The Redbook Report on Female Sexuality: 100,000 married women disclose the good news about sex (Delacore, 1977) (ISBN 0-440-07560-2)
  • EveryWoman's Emotional Well-Being: Heart & Mind, Body & Soul (Doubleday, 1986) (ISBN 0-385-18561-8)
  • Anger : The Misunderstood Emotion (Touchstone, revised edition, 1989) (ISBN 0-671-67523-0)
  • The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, Inferior or Opposite Sex (Simon and Schuster, 1992) (ISBN 0-671-66274-0)
  • Critical & Creative Thinking: The Case of Love and War (with Carole Wade) (Harpercollins, 1993) (ISBN 0-06-501753-6)
  • Psychology in Perspective (3rd edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2001) (ISBN 0-13-028326-6)
  • Invitation to Psychology (4th edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2008) (ISBN 0-13-114624-6)
  • Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues in the News (Prentice Hall, 2000) (ISBN 0-13-027986-2)
  • Psychology (9th edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2008) (ISBN 0-13-175063-1)

[edit] External links

  • Prentice Hall's page on Carol Tavris
  • Are Girls Really as Mean as Books Say They Are? [1], by Carol Tavris
  • Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists (The Chronicle Review ) [2], by Carol Tavris
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