Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F23%3A00571068" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/23:00571068 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11690/23:10466829 RIV/61384399:31130/23:00058994
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00139165231163547" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00139165231163547</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00139165231163547" target="_blank" >10.1177/00139165231163547</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers
Original language description
Several studies have shown that moral licensing by observers makes observers more lenient in their judgment of subsequent immoral behaviors committed by a person. Environmental behavior is generally perceived as moral behavior, but it is not known whether it can trigger moral licensing by observers. In two pre-registered experimental laboratory studies (N-1 = 198, N-2 = 501), we have tested whether prior engagement in pro-environmental behavior triggers licensing by observers and thus makes observers judge more positively actors' subsequent immoral behavior (Study 1) and their subsequent anti- and pro-environmental behaviors (Study 2). We found that people engaging in pro-environmental behavior were subsequently rated as more pro-environmental and moral, and their subsequent pro- and anti-environmental behaviors (but not outright immoral behavior) were rated as more moral by observers. As these effects also concern subsequent pro-environmental behaviors, they are broader than what licensing theory suggests.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-07257S" target="_blank" >GA23-07257S: Causal role of environmental identity in pro-environmental behavior</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environment and Behavior
ISSN
0013-9165
e-ISSN
1552-390X
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
74-98
UT code for WoS article
000954581500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150874704