Effron, Daniel A. and Conway, Paul (2015). When virtue leads to villainy: advances in research on moral self-licensing. Curr. Opin. Psychol., 6. S. 32 - 36. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 2352-250X
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Acting virtuously can subsequently free people to act less-than-virtuously. We review recent insights into this moral selflicensing effect: first, it is reliable, though modestly sized, and occurs in both real-world and laboratory contexts; second, planning to do good, reflecting on foregone bad deeds, or observing ingroup members' good deeds is sufficient to license less virtuous behavior; third, when people need a license, they can create one by strategically acting or planning to act more virtuously, exaggerating the sinfulness of foregone bad deeds, or reinterpreting past behavior as moral credentials; and fourth, moral self-licensing effects seem most likely to occur when people interpret their virtuous behavior as demonstrating their lack of immorality but not signaling that morality is a core part of their self-concept.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-384592 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.03.017 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Curr. Opin. Psychol. | ||||||||||||
Volume: | 6 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 32 - 36 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2015 | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | AMSTERDAM | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2352-250X | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/38459 |
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