Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, after majoring in both sociology and comparative literature as an undergraduate at Brandeis University.  (She got a C+ in the only psychology course she took there.) In her career as a writer and lecturer, she has sought to educate the public about the important contributions of psychological science and to explain how pseudoscience can lead us astray at best and, at worst, cause enormous personal and social harm. Her latest book, with Elliot Aronson, is Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts, which has been translated into 11 foreign languages. Her other best-known books include Anger: The misunderstood emotion; The Mismeasure of Woman; and, with Carole Wade, two textbooks in introductory psychology.  Dr. Tavris has written hundreds of articles, essays, and book reviews on topics in psychological science for a wide array of publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, Scientific American, and the (London) Times Literary Supplement. Many of these have been recently collected in a reader, Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using psychological science to think critically about popular psychology. She has spoken to students, psychologists, lawyers, physicians, and general audiences around the world, from New Zealand to Finland. Dr. Tavris is a fellow of three divisions of the APA, a Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and serves on the editorial board of Psychological Science in the Public Interest.