 Similarly, Sarah Stroud has argued that when it is a friend’s behavior that is in question, rather than that of a stranger, “we tend to devote more energy to defeating or minimizing the impact of unfavorable data than we otherwise would. … [A]t the end of the day we are simply less likely to conclude that our friend acted disreputably, or that he is a bad person, than we would in the case of a nonfriend” (Stroud 2006, 505–6).