Social and behavioural
Seven new deadly sins: 4) Entitlement
This post is part of the Research Digest’s Sin Week. Each day for Seven days we’ll be posting a confession, a new sin and a way to be good.
10 February 2011
‘Entitlement is the absolutist requirement that all one’s egocentric demands for “justice” not only be fully met, but also be of keen interest to the rest of the world, no matter how trivial and inconsequential the injustices, and irrespective of how great the redress of perceived inequity has been to-date,’ says Bill Winogron at S4Potential.
‘It’s a close cousin to what American psychologist Albert Ellis more wittily named “Musturbation”.’