Self-regulation after temptation?
Détails
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Etat: Public
Version: Final published version
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ID Serval
serval:BIB_0A1E49F22B3B
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Self-regulation after temptation?
Périodique
Economics Letters
ISSN
0165-1765
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
05/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
214
Pages
110436
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Although moral cleansing—a form of self-regulation—has frequently been studied, existing evidence is mixed and its prerequisites remain unclear. We hypothesize that large, salient deviations from self-defined morality require regulation through moral cleansing, whereas small, inconspicuous deviations are tolerated and lead to continued misbehavior. Using an incentivized online experiment, we measure participants’ baseline morality before using temptations to induce deviations. We find that weak temptations lead to small reductions in moral behavior that remain uncorrected. However, we observe that larger deviations induced by strong temptation do not lead to compensation.
Mots-clé
Economics and Econometrics, Finance
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
Financement(s)
Université de Lausanne
Création de la notice
10/06/2022 10:51
Dernière modification de la notice
10/02/2024 8:17