Before revision: of their victims.Discounting, Minimizing, and Trivializing ' Typical psychological defences exhibited by stalkers and guilty criminal suspects include denial, rationalisation, minimisation and projection of blame onto the victim'.Abby Stein, Prologue to Violence (2006) p. 6 A variation on minimisation as a manipulative technique is "claiming altruistic motives" such as saying "I don't do this because I am selfish, and for gain, but because I am a socially aware person interested in the common good".Kantor, Martin The Psychopathy of Everyday Life 2006 Cognitive distortion Minimisation may also take the form of cognitive distortion: that avoids acknowledging and dealing with negative emotions by reducing the importance and impact of events that give rise to those emotions.
After revision: of their victims.Discounting, Minimizing, and Trivializing Typical psychological defences exhibited by stalkers and guilty criminal suspects include denial, rationalisation, minimisation and projection of blame onto the victim'.Abby Stein, Prologue to Violence (2006) p. 6 A variation on minimisation as a manipulative technique is "claiming altruistic motives" such as saying "I don't do this because I am selfish, and for gain, but because I am a socially aware person interested in the common good".Kantor, Martin The Psychopathy of Everyday Life 2006 Cognitive distortion Minimisation may also take the form of cognitive distortion: that avoids acknowledging and dealing with negative emotions by reducing the importance and impact of events that give rise to those emotions.