Act of Hypocrisy

An Act of Hypocrisy is a moral agent act that 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.

• Context:
  • It can be performed by a Hypocrite.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Act of Righteousness.
• See: Psychology, Adaptation, Human Brain, Cognitive Bias, Cognitive Distortion.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy Retrieved:2014-7-27.
  • 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. It 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 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 humans to readily perceive and condemn faults in others, while failing to perceive and condemn faults of their own.

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hypocrisy?rdfrom=Hypocrisy#Noun
  1. The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have. Template:Defdate
  2. The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
  3. An instance of either or both of the above.

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