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Michael Hallsworth

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New book "The Hypocrisy Trap" out now! a.co/d/8eEK62D (US) amzn.eu/d/6AnnL6s (UK)
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Our Obsession with Hypocrisy Is Making Things Worse

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By Michael Hallsworth
| Flipboard
Where Did the Ampersand Symbol Come From? The symbol we know as the ampersand can be traced as far back as some graffiti on a Pompeian wall around the 1st century CE. It wasn’t called an …
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The Hypocrisy Trap by Michael Hallsworth, excerpt

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By Michael Hallsworth
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives 288 pages, The MIT Press, 2025 Buy the book » Our lives are full of accusations of hypocrisy—against politicians, companies, and each other. Yet despite this noise, little seems to change. In my new book The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives, I stop to ask what exactly we’re accusing people of, and why that calling out feels so good.
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You're a Hypocrite, But That's OK

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By Michael Kovnat, Michael Hallsworth
| Book of the Day from The Next Big Idea Club
One of the life’s great pleasures is calling out hypocrites. Whether it’s the politician preaching family values while hiding a scandal, or the climate activist flying by private jet, it can be really satisfying to expose the gap between someone’s words and their actions. But as pleasurable as that “gotcha” feeling is, it could be something of a trap.
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