Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11690/23:10466829 RIV/61384399:31130/23:00058994

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-07257S" target="_blank" >GA23-07257S: Kauzální role environmentální identity v proenvironmentálním chování</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Environment and Behavior

ISSN

0013-9165

e-ISSN

1552-390X

Svazek periodika

55

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

74-98

Kód UT WoS článku

000954581500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85150874704