...Yeah this psychological phenomenon explains so many regrettable viral posts that could have simply not been postedhttps://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1345908235639787522 …
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It's the whole cognitive dissonance thing It's very difficult to accept you actually did a bad thing and have to live with the fact that it was bad It feels so much more perversely rewarding to try to find some way to justify or rationalize it as not bad
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Going and making it public so you can get that external validation and stop feeling bad about it Even if you're really just making it worse
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I mean whatever percentage of AITA posts are in fact real and come from genuine, obvious assholes, this is obviously why they do it
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