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The Hypocrisy Trap
Michael Hallsworth's book on why hypocrisy makes people so angry, and why the reflex to hunt down and punish hypocrites can itself become a trap. Opens with an anecdote about his daughter accusing the adults in her family of being "like the prime minister having parties" after catching them eating Christmas pudding she'd just been told she couldn't have — which Hallsworth uses to illustrate how intuitively people spot hypocrisy in everyday life. Discussed on the podcast via the UK's Partygate scandal (Boris Johnson, 2022) as the framing case study.
Discussed in
- Episode 262 — 262-why-did-partygate-make-voters-so-angry