Wash your hands of that decision

摘要

A metaphor for distancing oneself from immoral acts, hand-washing doesn't just wipe the conscience clean. It also changes how individuals regard decisions they just made. After making a choice, people justify it by exaggerating its benefits and overplaying downsides of the rejected option. "So they come to like the choice they made better," says Spike Lee at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.