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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Knaves, Fools, Villains, and Hypocrites:
How do they live with themselves?
This introduction sets out the main issues the book will address, such as how can tyrants and despots sleep soundly at night? How come everyone can see a hypocrite in action except the hypocrite? Why do the Dinka and Nuer tribes of Sudan extract their children’s front teeth—and still believe “the toothless look is beautiful”? How does self-justification help us, and when is it self-defeating and dangerous?
Chapter 1
Cognitive Dissonance:
The Engine of Self-justification
Chapter 2
Pride and Prejudice . . . And Other Blind Spots
Chapter 3
Memory, the Self-justifying Historian
Chapter 4
Good Intentions, Bad Science:
The Closed Loop of Clinical Judgment
Chapter 5
Law and Disorder
Chapter 6
Love’s Assassin:
Self-justification in Marriage
Chapter 7
Wounds, Rifts, and Wars
Chapter 8
Letting Go and Owning Up
Notes
Index
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