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Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

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Thomas Szasz

Thomas Stephen Szasz (15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.

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    人們的報酬或懲罰不是因為他們的所作所為,而是因為他們的行為是如何定義的。這就是為什麼男人對更好地為自己辯護比對更好地表現自己更感興趣。

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