akshatrathi comments on Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: akshatrathi 12 November 2010 02:10:29PM 0 points [-]

Another explanation is motivated bias; we feel good thinking well of ourselves and badly of others, and because of that don't look very critically at our positive claims about ourselves

Surely there must be more than the reason that you give.