1. Carol Anne Tavris was born on September 17,1944 and is an American social psychologist and feminist.
14 Facts About Carol Tavris
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Carol Tavris has devoted her career to writing and lecturing about the contributions of psychological science to the beliefs and practices that guide people's lives, and to criticizing "psychobabble," "biobunk," and pseudoscience.
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Carol Tavris has taught psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the New School for Social Research.
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Carol Tavris is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Carol Tavris grew up in Los Angeles, California, with her parents, Sam and Dorothy Tavris, secular Jews who promoted and practiced critical thinking and equality for women.
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Carol Tavris was encouraged to argue and discuss everything with them, from household rules to religion.
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Carol Tavris's grandparents were Russian Jews who emigrated to Chicago in the early 1900s.
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When Carol Tavris went to the University of Michigan to get her Ph.
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Carol Tavris took a year off from graduate school to write for a new magazine, Psychology Today.
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Carol Tavris returned to the magazine, after receiving her Ph.
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Carol Tavris met Carole Wade, her future co-author, while writing for the publication.
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Carol Tavris began writing about women's status and gender differences in the 1970s.
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Carol Tavris was married to the actor Ronan O'Casey until his death in April 2012.
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Carol Tavris has testified as an expert witness in several court cases where evidence against a defendant was based on pseudoscientific, unvalidated psychological ideas, and she has been an advisor for the National Center for Reason and Justice, an advocacy group devoted to fighting false allegations and wrongful convictions.