{"id":913,"date":"2011-02-21T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=913"},"modified":"2023-07-23T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:22:48","slug":"strategies-for-coping-with-questionable-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/webinars\/decision-making-for-a-social-world\/strategies-for-coping-with-questionable-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for coping with questionable decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI read <\/em>Playboy<em> for the articles\u201d: Justifying and rationalizing questionable preferences<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-018-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Zoe Chance &amp; Michael Norton<br \/>\nHumans are masters of lying and self-deception. We want others to believe us good, fair, responsible and logical, and we yearn to see ourselves this way. Therefore, when our actions might appear selfish, prejudiced or perverted, we engage a host of strategies to justify our behavior with rational excuses: &#8220;I hired my son because he&#8217;s better educated.&#8221; &#8220;I promoted Ashley because she&#8217;s more experienced than Aisha.&#8221; In this article, we review previous studies examining how people restructure situations to view their behavior in a more positive light, and we present the results of our Playboy study. We conclude by briefly reviewing two additional strategies for coping with such difficult situations: forgoing choices, and forgetting decisions altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI read Playboy for the articles\u201d: Justifying and rationalizing questionable preferences (link to the article) Zoe Chance &amp; Michael Norton Humans are masters of lying and self-deception. We want others to believe us good, fair, responsible and logical, and we yearn to see ourselves this way. Therefore, when our actions might appear selfish, prejudiced or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Strategies for coping with questionable decisions - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/webinars\/decision-making-for-a-social-world\/strategies-for-coping-with-questionable-decisions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strategies for coping with questionable decisions - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI read Playboy for the articles\u201d: Justifying and rationalizing questionable preferences (link to the article) Zoe Chance &amp; Michael Norton Humans are masters of lying and self-deception. 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