Mistakes Were Made Summary

The book Mistakes Were Made, talks about the decisions we make and how and why we do the decisions psychologically. Mistakes Were Made, shows in good detail why people always disagree agree or have biases. A major aspect in the book is the factual evidence, with lots of examples, now because I am not a psychologist I must agree with the authors as it shows good evidence, as it seems that they use their past lives as examples, the info given makes sense and seems like common sense, so it should be easy to pick up, for instance “bias” people will never stop having biases, and everybody has a bias whether it's for a favorite soap brand to the political branches, brainwashing can be a source for creating biases as well as propaganda. The authors use a lot of examples of political leaders, and explains some of the mistakes presidents have made. A reason for why this is a great aspect is that the authors seem to try to stay away from the bias route, as they talk …show more content…
This is the same case as the capital punishment as both sides (New car and old car), because the new car owner believes that his car is better because it's new and he thinks of it as the best option, while the old car owner believes that there is no point, this of course is also biased by the old car owner. Self justification happens all the time as there is always a reason for why you do things, whether you can explain it or