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  2. Self-justification - Wikipedia

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    External self-justification refers to the use of external excuses to justify one's actions. The excuses can be a displacement of personal responsibility, lack of self-control or social pressures. External self-justification aims to diminish one's responsibility for a behavior and is usually elicited by moral dissonance. For example, the smoker ...

  3. Rationalization (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Rationalization is a defense mechanism (ego defense) in which apparent logical reasons are given to justify behavior that is motivated by unconscious instinctual impulses. [1] It is an attempt to find reasons for behaviors, especially one's own. [ 2 ]

  4. Illustrator - Wikipedia

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    An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, which is the reason illustrations are often found ...

  5. Ben Franklin effect - Wikipedia

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    The eponym of the effect, Benjamin Franklin. The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them. An explanation for this is cognitive dissonance.

  6. Self-blame (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Self-blame is a cognitive process in which an individual attributes the occurrence of a stressful event to oneself. The direction of blame often has implications for individuals’ emotions and behaviors during and following stressful situations.

  7. Moral disengagement - Wikipedia

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    One method of disengagement is portraying inhumane behavior as though it has a moral purpose in order to make it socially acceptable.Moral justification is the first of a series of mechanisms suggested by Bandura that can induce people to bypass self-sanction and violate personal standards. [7]

  8. All of Kendrick Lamar and Drake's diss tracks, ranked - AOL

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    We ranked all eight of the diss tracks exchanged by Drake and Kendrick Lamar over the past year. Lamar's Grammy-nominated kill shot "Not Like Us" took the top spot.

  9. Insufficient justification - Wikipedia

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    Insufficient justification is an effect studied in the discipline of social psychology.It states that people are more likely to engage in a behavior that contradicts the beliefs they hold personally when offered a smaller reward compared to a larger reward. [1]