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Carol Tavris

Carol Tavris

American social psychologist

Jul 22, 2026

2:33
They misrepresented their own data.
2:39
Okay, so you have to back up a step.
2:41
You said 20 years ago, it's like that's old times.
2:43
Well, it's not old times.
2:44
A generation of doctors came of age in medical school learning that hormone therapy for women in menopause is going to cause cancer and many other dire things, and it's not beneficial.
2:55
That's what they learned in medical school.
2:57
It became the guidelines for their various specialties.

6 MINS LATER

8:47
What individual women can do, and this
54:18
We are really seeing this amplified on social media right now.
54:20
Oh, yeah.
54:21
Oh, yeah, yeah.
54:21
It's this looking backward fallacy.
54:23
If A comes before B, A must have caused B.
54:27
There are a lot of things can cause B, and we might want to select one, but it behooves us to think further and see if it's really a logical cause or not.
54:36
You know, one of the things I think that women don't understand about estrogen-Is that it is a hormone that affects every damn part of our bodies.

15 MINS LATER

69:38
Teaching, giving back
15:28
(laughs)
15:28
So the next time you're faced with cheating, you've cheated and you justify it because everybody cheats and, "I need the grade, and m- it's no big deal.
15:39
It's not a great mortal sin." But now the next time you have a chance to cheat, you've already done the mental work of justifying it, so it will become easier to do.
15:50
And each time you are faced with that kind of moral choice, it's gonna be easier and easier for you to stay on the first step, to the path you chose, until over time, it's such an entrenched self-justification that it seems normal and inevitable to you, and you do not see how far apart you now are from the people who went down the pyramid in the opposite way.
16:19
"No, cheating is a s- is a violation of group norms.
16:25
It's not a victimless crime.
16:27
It's not a correct thing to do.

28 MINS LATER

44:11
Mm-hmm.

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