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Letting People Off the Hook: When Do Good Deeds Excuse Transgressions?

Effron, Daniel A., Monin, Benoît·2010·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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Three studies examined when and why an actor's prior good deeds make observers more willing to excuse--or license--his or her subsequent, morally dubious behavior. In a pilot study, actors' good deeds made participants more forgiving of the actors' subsequent transgressions. In Study 1, participants only licensed blatant transgressions that were in a different domain than actors' good deeds; blatant transgressions in the same domain appeared hypocritical and suppressed licensing (e.g., fighting adolescent drug use excused sexual harassment, but fighting sexual harassment did not). Study 2 replicated these effects and showed that good deeds made observers license ambiguous transgressions (e.g., behavior that might or might not represent sexual harassment) regardless of whether the good deeds and the transgression were in the same or in a different domain--but only same-domain good deeds did so by changing participants' construal of the transgressions. Discussion integrates two models of why licensing occurs.

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Authors: Effron, D. A., & Monin, B.
Affiliations: Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author: Effron, Daniel A.
ORCID: Effron, Daniel A.
Monin, Benoît
Venue: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-10-26
Volume: 36
Issue: 12
Pages: 1618-1634
ISSN: 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167210385922
OpenAlex: W2092843370
Cited by: 199
References: 27
Citations by year: 2026: 13 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 3.87
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: moral transgression, forgiveness, hypocrisy, domain specificity, construal level, moral judgment, sexual harassment
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Decision Making, Female, Guilt, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Judgment, Male, Morals, Pilot Projects, Punishment, Social Behavior, Social Justice, Young Adult

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