think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not

supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some

time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are

so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally

imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt,

they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives

and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality

have a non-moral origin. We use the term "oversocialized" to describe