Arbeitspapier
A little good is good enough: Ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing
This paper explores the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other independent ethical facets of the product. Opting for a product that fulfills one ethical aspect may thus suffice for keeping a high moral self-image in agents, and render it easier to ignore other ethically relevant aspects they would otherwise care about. The use of such cheap excuses could thus lead to a 'static moral self-licensing' effect. This would extend the logic of the well-known moral self-licensing over time. Our experimental study provides empirical evidence that the static counterpart of moral self-licensing exists. Furthermore, effects spill over to unrelated, ethically relevant contexts later in time. Thus, static moral self-licensing and moral self-licensing over time can amplify each other. Outsiders, though monetarily incentivized for correct estimates, are completely oblivious to the effects of moral selflicensing, both, static and over time.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: KIT Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 102
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Expectations; Speculations
- Thema
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moral self-licensing
moral spillovers
cheap excuses
outsider beliefs
moral personality
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Engel, Jannis
Szech, Nora
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)
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Karlsruhe
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2017
- DOI
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doi:10.5445/IR/1000068513
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:swb:90-685139
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Engel, Jannis
- Szech, Nora
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)
Entstanden
- 2017
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