My answer for why this may happen, conditional on this actually being generalizable, is that people have surprisingly good intuitions that something is off or deserves praise, but when forced to explain, the brain makes up a plausible reason, instead of the true reason that something is wrong.
My answer for why this may happen, conditional on this actually being generalizable, is that people have surprisingly good intuitions that something is off or deserves praise, but when forced to explain, the brain makes up a plausible reason, instead of the true reason that something is wrong.