JUSTIFICATIONS — Term from SntMaster Dictionary

JUSTIFICATIONS

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social mechanisms a person uses when he has committed an overt and withheld it. It is a means by which a person can relieve himself of consciousness of having done an overt by trying to lessen the overt. This is done by finding fault or displacing blame. See also overts and withholds in this glossary.

—Staff Status II Glossary, Approved late Sept. 1990