Word: dovidio
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...People expect to feel much more emotion than they actually do. We are good at rationalizing responses," says Jack Dovidio, a Yale psychologist and co-author of the study. "If there are certain costs - we don't want to get involved, maybe because we aren't quite as committed to equality as we thought we were - then we go through a series of rationalizations: 'Maybe it wasn't that bad.' That's the danger - that we explain everything away. It justifies our behavior...