🚚 Free Worldwide Shipping on All Orders!Shop Now
Product image 1
HomeStore

The Hypocrisy Trap How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives

The Hypocrisy Trap How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives

How our desire to stamp out hypocrisy is backfiring—and how learning to target our criticisms better can improve our politics, business, and personal relationships.

In our increasingly distrusting and polarized nations, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But the strange truth is that our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy often backfire, creating what Michael Hallsworth calls The Hypocrisy Trap. In this groundbreaking book, he shows how our relentless drive to expose inconsistency between words and deeds can actually breed more hypocrisy or, worse, cynicism that corrodes democracy itself.

Through engaging stories and original research, Hallsworth shows that not all hypocrisy is equal. While some forms genuinely destroy trust and create harm, others reflect the inevitable compromises of human nature and complex societies. The Hypocrisy Trap offers practical solutions: ways to increase our own consistency, navigate accusations wisely, and change how we judge others’ actions. Hallsworth shows vividly that we can improve our politics, businesses, and personal relationships if we rethink hypocrisy—soon.
$13.98

Original: $39.95

-65%
The Hypocrisy Trap How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives

$39.95

$13.98

Product Information

Shipping & Returns

Description

How our desire to stamp out hypocrisy is backfiring—and how learning to target our criticisms better can improve our politics, business, and personal relationships.

In our increasingly distrusting and polarized nations, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But the strange truth is that our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy often backfire, creating what Michael Hallsworth calls The Hypocrisy Trap. In this groundbreaking book, he shows how our relentless drive to expose inconsistency between words and deeds can actually breed more hypocrisy or, worse, cynicism that corrodes democracy itself.

Through engaging stories and original research, Hallsworth shows that not all hypocrisy is equal. While some forms genuinely destroy trust and create harm, others reflect the inevitable compromises of human nature and complex societies. The Hypocrisy Trap offers practical solutions: ways to increase our own consistency, navigate accusations wisely, and change how we judge others’ actions. Hallsworth shows vividly that we can improve our politics, businesses, and personal relationships if we rethink hypocrisy—soon.

You may also like

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Homegoing

$21.00

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

Some Bright Nowhere A Novel

$35.99

$12.60

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

World as Lover, World as Self: 30th Anniversary Edition Courage for Global Justice and Planetary Renewal

$24.95

$8.73

NEW
Thumbnail 1

The Ferryman and His Wife A Novel

$23.99

NEW
Thumbnail 1

The Last of Its Kind

$24.95

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Fallen Stars Book Two of the Heavenly Bodies series

$27.95

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Exit Strategy A Reacher Novel

$37.99

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Searches Selfhood in the Digital Age

$39.99

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Why Brains Need Friends The Neuroscience of Social Connection

$41.00

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Having People Over A Modern Guide to Planning, Throwing, and Attending Every Type of Party

$39.99

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Wind Daughter

$24.99

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Cursed Daughters

$37.00