Is There a Causal Effect on Reason Giving?

New scientific evidence and popular psychological books suggest that most of what we're doing is really telling ourselves a plausible story after the event about why we did something. So i think there are two ways of thinking about this. And many psychologists wou like to say that reason giving never, as any fact, a causal effect on what we decide. Is just ap phenomenal, so we tug it along at the end to give ana rance of rationality. I think that may be partially true in some situations, but is not the old picture. By giving reasons, we actually do something that is eventually causaly effective on ou wedy cide in the future,. Because we present ourselves as the type