To expand the potential reach of the evolutionary influence model of moral judgment, they typically combine that causal model with what may be called the 'mere rationalization hypothesis' with regard to the reasons people give for moral judgments that are really shaped by evolutionary factors.
"I guess I played a rationalization game with myself that the fan interest I was generating outweighed the cost to the institution," he said.
The "plot" of "Wars I Have Seen," if we can use that term to describe its narrative trajectory, is the change from Stein's hysterical despair alternating with rationalization, to hope alternating with fear, to unmitigated ecstatic joy when the Liberation comes.
The change in western Germany is reflective of a rationalization of agriculture, with many small landholders leaving farming and the remaining farms often increasing in size.
People don't generally engage in moral reasoning, Haidt argues, but moral rationalization: they begin with the conclusion, coughed up by an unconscious emotion, and then work backward to a plausible justification.
While most teams played at their own grounds before the mid-1960s, between 1965 and 2001 a process of stadium rationalization took place, with all games in Melbourne eventually held at two stadiums, the MCG and the Telstra Dome.
So while we drove forward with rationalization, we also made progress in creating systems and driving innovation.
Seen this way, it makes sense that Weber's rationalization thesis concludes with two strikingly dissimilar prophecies — one is the imminent iron cage of bureaucratic petrification and the other, the Hellenistic pluralism of warring deities.
The six pieces selected as finalists were well-written and, from my perspective, awash with rationalization and verbal gymnastics aimed at making the authors and readers not feel guilty.
