Puritanical bias

Puritanical bias refers to the tendency to attribute cause of an undesirable outcome or wrongdoing by an individual to a moral deficiency or lack of self control rather than taking into account the impact of broader societal determinants.[1] [2] An example might be, "These people sit around all day in their apartments on welfare watching TV, but won't take the time to get out and find a job!" In this case, a selection of persons might have existed for some time under dire economic and/or socially oppressive circumstances, but individuals from that selection have been cognitively dis-empowered by these circumstances to decide or act on decisions to obtain a given goal.

References

Kokkoris, Michail (2020-01-16). "The Dark Side of Self-Control". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
Loewenstein, George (2020-02-13). "Self-Control and Its Discontents: A Commentary on Duckworth, Milkman, and Laibson". PUbMed. Retrieved 3 April 2020.

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[1] Kokkoris, Michail (2020-01-16). "The Dark Side of Self-Control". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 17 January 2020.

[2] Loewenstein, George (2020-02-13). "Self-Control and Its Discontents: A Commentary on Duckworth, Milkman, and Laibson". PUbMed. Retrieved 3 April 2020.