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"It makes it easier to rationalize fraudulent behavior".
Remember how it felt to rationalize your behavior and pinpoint that feeling as cognitive dissonance the next time it happens.
At the time, Mr. Cohen said, he found it easy to rationalize his behavior.
In one scene, set in the office of the therapist of a woman he is having an affair with, he rationalizes his behavior: "I didn't want to leave my wife and child, I said.
The constant scrutiny of a camera seems exploitative and cruel, even if you are at all suspicious when he rationalizes his behavior as childlike mischief.
For too long, our collective politics has demonized the other side for caustic behavior while rationalizing that same behavior when it comes from someone who shares their politics.
"People rationalize their behavior to justify it," Ordóñez, one of the study's authors, said in a press release.
A champion of her family's toxic logic, she rationalizes their abusive behavior to a fault, her loyalty both endearing and tragic.
Most, if not all these men undoubtedly rationalized their behavior in order to continue it.
Most, if not all these transgressors undoubtedly rationalized their behavior in order to continue it.
The process of rationalizing his behavior blinded him to the corruption it entailed, and led him to behave in ways totally antithetical to his life history," the psychiatrist concluded.
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