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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Defense Mechanisms > Rationalization

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Rationalization  

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  • no qualif

Scope note

  • A defense mechanism operating unconsciously, in which the individual attempts to justify or make consciously tolerable, by plausible means, feelings, behavior, and motives that would otherwise be intolerable.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under DEFENSE MECHANISMS 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011908

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