“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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