the highest mechanism of psychological defense, which manifests itself in the fact that contradictions between some thoughts, ideas, attitudes or forms of behavior are stubbornly not recognized by a person, and when they are detected, they are rationalized separately without taking into account the connection between them. This is a defense mechanism that allows a person to retain contradictory attitudes, thoughts, and events. A person who for one reason or another needs to coexist within two conflicting positions will try in every possible way not to realize the obvious contradiction between them, using rationalization.