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Keep a List of Unethical Things You’ll Never Do

Harvard Business Review

In Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me ), Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson discuss cognitive dissonance, in which people feel great distress when they see that they’d behaved at odds with their beliefs and values. They suggest that the distress makes it harder to remember dissonant behavior and thus easier to repeat it.

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