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As soon as people have created a category called us… they invariably perceive everybody who isn’t in it as non-us.
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081 |
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Once people have a prejudice, just as once they have a political ideology, they do not easily drop it, even if the evidence indisputably contradicts a core justification for it.
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084 |
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Parent blaming is a popular and convenient form of self-justification because it allows people to live less uncomfortably with their regrets and imperfections.
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104 |
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Fake memories all ow people to forgive themselves and justify their mistakes, but sometimes at a high price: an inability to take responsibility for their lives.
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127 |
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Marriage… is the greatest two-way decision of most people’s lives, and couples are enormously invested in making it work.
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219 |
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Once people commit themselves to an opinion… they become less able to accept information that is dissonant with their positions.
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267 |
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The pain of living with horrors we have committed but cannot morally accept is searing, which is why most people will reach for any justification available to assuage the dissonance.
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268 |
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…people do not preform acts of cruelty and come out unscathed on the other side. Success at dehumanizing the victim virtually guarantees a continuation or even an escalation of the cruelty…
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272 |
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People will pursue self-destructive courses of action to protect the wisdom of their initial decisions.
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285 |
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…there are more positive reasons for owning up. Other people will like you more.
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296 |
