Blanketing the evidence: A study in avoidance
Research suggests that when faced with incriminating evidence, humans will often default to blanketing it under a layer of denial. This is a defense mechanism that has been observed in 99.9% of all humans.
Methods include but are not limited to:
- Blaming the weather
- Accusing one's socks of being evil
- Claiming to have been blind
- Claiming the cat did it