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Do good deeds make bad people ?

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A limited but growing literature contends that licensing can operate by committing to avirtuous act in a preceding choice, which reduces negative self-attributions associated with donatingless or behaving less virtuously in the succeeding decision. Psychological research and behavioraleconomics strongly suggest that pre-existing intrinsic motivations of individuals play a major role indetermining their subsequent choices when faced with a voluntary or mandatory virtuous ‘act’. Inthis paper, we report the results of a pilot experimental study examining licensing effect in theenvironmental realm, using a 2 (mandatory or voluntary nature of the virtuous act) X 2 (intrinsicallyor non-intrinsically motivated individuals) between subjects design. We found that intrinsicallymotivated and non-intrinsically motivated subjects reacted adversely to the two policy scenarios. Thelicensing effect occurs when combining intrinsically (resp., non-intrinsically) motivated individualsand mandatory (resp. voluntary) conditions.
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hal-02745742 , version 1 (03-06-2020)

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Sophie Clot, Gilles Grolleau, Lisette L. Ibanez. Do good deeds make bad people ?. 5. Journées de recherches en sciences sociales, Dec 2011, Dijon, France. ⟨hal-02745742⟩
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