Chief financial officer Justin took his family on an Asian vacation using the company jet. He excuses his behavior by stating, "My family and I were spreading goodwill around the world for the company." Therefore, Justin tries to defend his actions by:

Respuesta :

Answer:

rationalizing            

Explanation:

Rationalization in psychology or logic is indeed a defensive mechanism wherein problematic actions or emotions are defended and clarified in an obviously logical or rational way to escape the mechanistic explanation, and are rendered actively bearable or perhaps even impressive and preferable by convincing methods.

Rationalization facilitates unreasonable or unacceptable behavior motivations or emotions and sometimes includes hypothesizing ad haste. This cycle goes from completely aware to mostly unaware. Individuals rationalize for different reasons. 

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