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In response to an accusation: "At least I didn't [worse action than accused action]." As a form of false choice: "Doing [undesirable action] is a lot better than [a worse action]." In response to unfair or abusive behaviour from a separate individual or group to the person: "I must have done something wrong if they treat me like this."
If people have too much external justification for their actions, cognitive dissonance does not occur, and thus, attitude change is unlikely to occur. On the other hand, when people cannot find external justification for their behavior, they must attempt to find internal justification—they reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes or behaviors.
The remembering of the past as having been better than it really was. Saying is believing effect: Communicating a socially tuned message to an audience can lead to a bias of identifying the tuned message as one's own thoughts. [177] Self-relevance effect: That memories relating to the self are better recalled than similar information relating ...
A more informal use of the term insanity is to denote something or someone considered highly unique, passionate or extreme, including in a positive sense. The term may also be used as an attempt to discredit or criticize particular ideas, beliefs, principles, desires, personal feelings, attitudes, or their proponents, such as in politics and ...
Manipulators may falsely accuse the victim of "deserving to be treated that way". They often claim that the victim is crazy or abusive, especially when there is evidence against the manipulator. Feigning innocence: Manipulator tries to suggest that any harm done was unintentional or that they did not do something that they were accused of.
Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the ...
Bryan looked much bigger than I remembered. He looked huge compared to me. I just looked so small. I went up to him. I was facing his left side and he had been shot on the right side, so he looked normal when I walked in. I stayed there for a second. I walked around to the other side.
Mises allowed that class consciousness and the associated class struggle were valid concepts in some circumstances where rigid social castes exist, e.g., when slavery is legal and slaves have a common motive for wanting to end their disadvantaged status relative to other castes, but that class is an arbitrary distinction in capitalist society ...