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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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Abstract

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
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Effron, Daniel A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Conway, Paul UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language IDENTITY; US; BEHAVIOR; PEOPLE; CREDENTIALS; CONSISTENCY Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/38459