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  • Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster–And Overcoming OurFear of Slowing Down
  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
  • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
  • The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
  • Men Explain Things to Me
  • The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts
  • I’m Just a Person
  • Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts
  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  • God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
  • The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
  • A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
  • Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
  • Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
  • The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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  • Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
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    Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

    / Leave a Comment / BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Race and Racism, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, What Should Be / By

    Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

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    Book Decription:

    A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain’t I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman’s involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar’s bookshelf.

    Categories: BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Race and Racism, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: bell hooks

    Website: Link

    Publisher: South End Press

    Publishing Date: 1999-07-01

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    Dr. Carol Tavris

    / BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Power, Pride & Shame, Rewards and Punishments, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, What Should Be / By

    Dr. Carol Tavris

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    Biography:

    Dr. Carol Tavris’s work as a writer, teacher, and lecturer has been devoted to educating the public about psychological science. Her book with Elliot Aronson, “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by ME): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts” (revised edition, 2015, and most recently updated in 2020 with a new chapter–“Dissonance, Democracy, and the Demagogue”), applies cognitive dissonance theory to a wide variety of topics, including politics, conflicts of interest, memory (everyday and “recovered”), the criminal justice system, police interrogation, the daycare sex-abuse epidemic, family quarrels, international conflicts, and business. Her latest book, with oncologist Avrum Bluming, is “Estrogen Matters” (Little, Brown Spark, 2018). In addition to writing essays and book reviews, she contributes a column for Skeptic magazine, “The Gadfly.”

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Power, Pride & Shame, Rewards and Punishments, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Dr. Carol Tavris

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  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts

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    Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts

    / Leave a Comment / All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Opinions, Other People Exist, Power, Pride & Shame, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, What Should Be / By

    Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts

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    Book Decription:

    Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell?

    Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right — a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Opinions, Other People Exist, Power, Pride & Shame, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Dr. Carol Tavris

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Publishing Date: 2007-05-07

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    Bessel van der Kolk

    / BEHAVIOR, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Lying, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Power, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Therapy, Unhealthy Behavior / By

    Bessel van der Kolk

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    Biography:

    Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator based in Boston, USA. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score. Van der Kolk served as a past president for the International Society for Traumatic stress Studies and former co-director of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is a professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Lying, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Power, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Therapy, and Unhealthy Behavior

    Website: Link

    Works of Bessel van der Kolk

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  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

    / Leave a Comment / BEHAVIOR, Change, Fear of the Unknown, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Social Skills, Teachers and Mentors, THINKING / By

    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown with Brené Brown

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    Podcast Decription:

    Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart.

    Categories: BEHAVIOR, Change, Fear of the Unknown, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Social Skills, Teachers and Mentors, and THINKING

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  • Brené Brown

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