What these results have suggested to Batson is that most of us (at least in these kinds of situations) are disposed towards a kind of moral hypocrisy, or appearing to be moral to oneself and others but avoiding the costs of actually being so if one can (try to) get away with it. After all, many participants were typically eager to flip the coin and report after the fact that this was the morally right course of action, but then distorted the process so that the results came out in their favor. Note that it is not the mere fact that they choose the positive consequences task for themselves that is hypocritical by itself—there could be cases where a person thinks of acts like this as being in line with her self-interest, and is not even aware of their moral ramifications. Nor is their hypocrisy captured here by the additional fact that the participants also seemed to believe in the moral principle that flipping the coin is the morally fair way to assign the task consequences. For then we would just have a perfectly familiar case of weakness of will, in which you believe that something is right but fail to be sufficiently motivated to do it.  Rather, their hypocrisy arises when they (i) choose the positive consequences for themselves, while (ii) seeming to believe that flipping the coin and following what it indicates is morally correct, and (iii) still claiming to themselves and others to have made the morally right task assignment (For more on characterizing moral hypocrisy, see Batson et al. 1997: 1335–1336, 1999: 525–526, 2002: 330; Batson and Thompson 2001; and Batson 2008, 2011: 222–224.).