Hypocrisy is the claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions, behaviors, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics that one does not in actual fact hold. Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another. In Moral psychology, it is the failure to follow one’s own expressed moral rules and principles. Recent studies in psychology is said to have identified the evolutionary bases and the mental mechanisms of hypocrisy, tracing its roots to adaptations that serve contradictory functions in the human brain, and to cognitive biases and distortions that predispose some immaturely thinking humans to readily perceive and condemn faults in others, while failing to perceive and condemn faults of their own.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:52:14 +0000
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