Hey, nobody’s perfect, right? After all, you live and learn. Everybody makes mistakes, and it’s well known that experience is the best teacher. String them together, and these familiar proverbs start to sound suspiciously like rationalizations for questionable behavior. They reinforce our threatened egos by insisting the offense we just committed, or mistake we just made, wasn’t really so terrible after all. And according to new research, they work — for men. It appears women’s consciences aren’t so easily assuaged. Those are the findings of a study by psychologist Dan ... Read More

