Hypocrisy1

TURNER, DAN

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9973.1990.tb00528.x

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“…Several scholars point to the "distance between assertion and performance" (Shklar, 1984, p. 62) or the disparity of values in hypocrisy, for example, words versus deeds, pretended beliefs versus genuine beliefs, or beliefs versus desires (Turner, 1990). However, as Szabados and Soifer (1999, pp.…”

Section: Philosophymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Although not identical, each of these views represents hypocrisy as a failure to bother working out conflicts in moral principles. However, there may be occasions where hypocrisy is the right answer to such conflicts (Kittay, 1982;Szabados & Soifer, 1999;Turner, 1990). Consider a Jew who feigns anti-Semitic attitudes to avoid becoming a victim of Nazi terror (Kittay, 1982;pp.…”

Section: Philosophymentioning

confidence: 97%

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Hypocrisy as Irony: Toward a Cognitive Model of Hypocrisy

Shelley¹

2006

Metaphor and Symbol

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This article presents evidence that hypocrisy is nothing other than a special form of situational irony. A cognitive model of hypocrisy judgments is described and its plausibility assessed. This view of hypocrisy is contrasted with previous characterizations of hypocrisy from the psychological and philosophical literature, in which no connection between hypocrisy and irony has been explored. The article offers some explanations as to why it is plausible that hypocrisy should occur as a kind of irony, and why the connection is not self-evident. It is also speculated that the hypocrisy is morally egregious because the irony involved tends to result in violations of distributive justice. Directions for future research are discussed.The purpose of this article is to substantiate the claim that hypocrisy is nothing other than a form of situational irony. That hypocrisy and situational irony are connected is not news. Shelley (2001) noted that some situational ironies are also hypocrisies. Consider the case of Emilio Valdez and Alfredo Hodoyan, two Mexican citizens who were arrested in California on charges of drug trafficking (Shelley, 2001, p. 792). They were extradited to Mexico where they were accused of being hitmen for a notorious drug cartel. Valdez and Hodoyan appealed the extradition on the basis that the police had violated their human rights to obtain information from them. The judges rejected the appeal, and one of them commented that it was ironic that Valdez and Hodoyan invoked claims to human rights when they appear to make their living by violating human rights, through drug trafficking and murder. Note that not only is it ironic for Valdez and Hodoyan to profess respect for human rights when they flaunt those rights in practice, but it is also hypocritical of them to do so, and for the same reason.

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Section: Philosophymentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Philosophymentioning

confidence: 97%

Hypocrisy as Irony: Toward a Cognitive Model of Hypocrisy

Shelley¹

2006

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“…Trilling (1972) explains that hypocrisy emerges when there is an inconsistency between how one truly is in private and how one portrays oneself in public. Turner (1990) notes that “the image of hypocrisy that many of us were taught was of someone who did not practice what she preached” (p. 262). According to McKinnon (1991), one characteristic of hypocritical behavior lies in the intentional dissimulation of one’s real intentions to appear more appealing.…”

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Brand hypocrisy from a consumer perspective: scale development and validation

Guèvremont¹

2019

JPBM

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Purpose There is increasing interest in understanding negative consumer reactions to brands and the nature of negative brand perceptions. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the construct of brand hypocrisy from a consumer perspective and develop a scale to measure it. Design/methodology/approach A multiphase scale development process involving 559 consumers was conducted. Study 1 pertains to item generation and reduction phases. Study 2 reports on scale purification and validation through confirmatory factor analyses and model comparisons. Study 3 focuses on discriminant and predictive validity, while Study 4 further investigates predictive validity using real brands with differences in brand hypocrisy. Findings A 12-item scale measuring four dimensions of brand hypocrisy is developed: image hypocrisy (brand failing to put words into action), mission hypocrisy (brand exerting an unacknowledged negative impact on society or consumer well-being), message hypocrisy (brand conveying unrealistic or unattainable images) and social hypocrisy (brand supporting social responsibility initiatives for strategic purposes only). Results indicate that brand hypocrisy is distinguishable from similar constructs in the literature and that it is a significant predictor of negative word-of-mouth and brand distance. Practical implications This conceptualization provides managers with a detailed understanding of what constitutes a hypocritical brand in the eyes of consumers as well as insights about how to prevent consumer perceptions of brand hypocrisy. Originality/value Findings enrich the understanding of negative consumer inferences related to brands and provide a conceptualization of an understudied but increasingly relevant form of brand judgment.

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“…His confessions of self‐loathing may forestall accusations of hypocrisy. Some actors even profess to not being in control of their will, say the drug addict urging a friend to avoid drugs (Crisp and Cowton , 345; Smilansky , 77; Turner , 263–5).…”

Section: Hypocrisymentioning

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Legal Hypocrisy

Yankah

2019

Ratio Juris

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Accusations of hypocrisy in law and politics typically invoke hypocrisy as a personal failing. This locution misses the much more dangerous way laws and legal institutions themselves can be hypocritical. Hypocrisy can be equally revealed when an institution not only deceives another but acts against its avowed values or does not act in ways required by the values professed. Thus, legal actors, institutions, and norms can, in their institutional role, act against the values they avow, displaying legal hypocrisy. By avowing attractive values while acting in ways that undermine those values, laws and legal institutions victimize citizens to achieve goals that could not be openly justified. In doing so, hypocritical laws not only harm their victims but, by obscuring the injury, undermine the victim’s ability to call the law into account. Hypocrisy is important to highlight precisely because it suffocates the voice of its victims. Because hypocrisy takes advantage of a person while only pretending to justify one’s actions, hypocrisy not only harms citizens but treats them with a form of contempt. The vicious irony is that hypocrisy in the law not only harms its “direct victims” but ultimately undermines the very rule of law.

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Hypocrisy1

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Hypocrisy as Irony: Toward a Cognitive Model of Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy as Irony: Toward a Cognitive Model of Hypocrisy

Brand hypocrisy from a consumer perspective: scale development and validation

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