The late New York Times columnist William Safire famously called Hillary Clinton a “congenital liar.” Others have called her a “pathological” liar. Maybe what really ails her is what two researchers are calling “unethical amnesia.”
Unethical amnesia is a defense mechanism that helps our minds by “forgetting about the times we’ve acted unethically.” In other words, when we cheat, lie, and act in other dishonest ways, our minds try to erase that behavior from our memories in order to protect ourselves from ourselves.
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