A meta-analytic review of moral licensing

I Blanken, N Van De Ven… - Personality and Social …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Moral licensing refers to the effect that when people initially behave in a moral way, they are
later more likely to display behaviors that are immoral, unethical, or otherwise problematic …

Spillover effects in environmental behaviors, across time and context: a review and research agenda

A Nilsson, M Bergquist, WP Schultz - Environmental Education …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
When implementing environmental education and interventions to promote one pro-
environmental behavior, it is seldom asked if and how non-target pro-environmental …

Strategic silence: Withholding certification status as a hypocrisy avoidance tactic

WC Carlos, BW Lewis - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We examine why organizations that obtain prominent certifications may at times elect not to
publicize them. Drawing on the impression management literature, we argue and show that …

Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction

CW Bauman, LJ Skitka - Research in organizational Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
Corporate social responsibility has received an increasing amount of attention from
practitioners and scholars alike in recent years. However, very little is known about whether …

Moral self‐licensing: When being good frees us to be bad

AC Merritt, DA Effron, B Monin - Social and personality …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Past good deeds can liberate individuals to engage in behaviors that are immoral, unethical,
or otherwise problematic, behaviors that they would otherwise avoid for fear of feeling or …

Consistency versus licensing effects of past moral behavior

E Mullen, B Monin - Annual review of psychology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Why does past moral behavior sometimes lead people to do more of the same (consistency),
whereas sometimes it liberates them to do the opposite (licensing)? We organize the …

Does slacktivism hurt activism? The effects of moral balancing and consistency in online activism

YH Lee, G Hsieh - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we explore how the decision of partaking in low-cost, low-risk online activism-
slacktivism-\'14may affect subsequent civic action. Based on moral balancing and …

Psychological license: When it is needed and how it functions

DT Miller, DA Effron - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
Differences among people in the actions they take or the opinions they express do not
always reflect differences in underlying attitudes, preferences, or motivations. When people …

Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it

C Moore, F Gino - Research in organizational behavior, 2013 - Elsevier
This chapter focuses on the social nature of morality. Using the metaphor of the moral
compass to describe individuals' inner sense of right and wrong, we offer a framework that …

Citizenship and counterproductive work behavior: A moral licensing view

AC Klotz, MC Bolino - Academy of management review, 2013 - journals.aom.org
Despite the generally negative relationship between organizational citizenship behaviors
and counterproductive work behaviors, employees often engage in both. Psychologists have …