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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 and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and has written for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

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 two psychology textbooks along with Carole Wade.

Bibliography[]

  • The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective (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, 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 (with Carole Wade) (Addison Wesley, 1996) (ISBN 0-673-98314-5)
  • Invitation to Psychology (with Carole Wade) (Longman, 1998) (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 (8th edition, with Carole Wade) (Prentice Hall, 2005) (ISBN 0-13-192684-5)

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