Carol Tavris

Carol Anne Tavris (born September 17, 1944) ["Contemporary Authors Online", s.v. "Carol Anne Tavris." Accessed March 10, 2008.] 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 "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.

References

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 Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 1992) (ISBN 0-671-66274-0)
* "Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion" (Touchstone, revised edition, 1989) (ISBN 0-671-67523-0)
* "Psychology" (9th edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2008) (ISBN 0-13-175063-1)
* "Invitation to Psychology" (4th edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2008) (ISBN 0-13-114624-6)
* "Psychology in Perspective" (3rd edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2001) (ISBN 0-13-028326-6)
* "Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues in the News" (Prentice Hall, 2000) (ISBN 0-13-027986-2)
* "The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective" (with Carole Wade) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, revised 1984)
* "EveryWoman's Emotional Well-Being: Heart & Mind, Body & Soul" (Doubleday, 1986)
* "The Redbook Report on Female Sexuality: 100,000 married women disclose the good news about sex" (Delacorte, 1977)

External links

* [http://www.prenhall.com/divisions/hss/app/wade2/author.html Prentice Hall's page on Carol Tavris]
* [http://tavris.socialpsychology.org/ Carol Tavris link on Social Psychology Network]
* [http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43b00701.htm "Are Girls Really as Mean as Books Say They Are?"] , by Carol Tavris
* [http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i25/25b00701.htm "Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists"] (The Chronicle Review), by Carol Tavris
* [http://www.pointofinquiry.org/?p=121 Mistakes Were Made - Point of Inquiry] (audio interview)