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Remember how it felt to rationalize your behavior and pinpoint that feeling as cognitive dissonance the next time it happens.
You can justify your actions with elaborate philosophies that rationalize your behavior -- "I am so above the norm, so unique, that I need not follow tradition".
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.
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.
You continue rationalizing his behavior, "oh, he's just kidding".
Here's a piece of philosophical red meat you can chew on, if you wish: Rationalizing awful behavior is itself a bad action that can lead to terrible consequences.
Years of looking the other way, averting eyes, rationalizing hateful behavior, issuing statements that weren't necessarily followed by appropriate actions, and underestimating the growing threat had had their impact.
Politicians are adept at rationalizing such irresponsible behavior.
In subsequent papers Braun offers rich and interesting accounts of the role propositional attitude ascribing sentences play in explaining, predicting, and rationalizing behavior.
Looking back on it now, I realize I was rationalizing self-destructive behavior.
Academic finance experts have sold themselves out by rationalizing behavior they know to be wrong.
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