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Moral Self-Licensing: Do Good Deeds Make People Act Bad? - Right Attitudes
When People Do Something ‘Good’ They Feel Licensed to Do Something ‘Bad’ Later Being—and being seen—as moral, ethical, and principled is an important part of people’s self-concept. Social psychologists have studied the tendency of people using their prior moral actions to license future morally questionable actions. According to these studies, prior to making morally important […]