Event Title
Moral Licensing Research Project
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Poster
Description
Previous research has been done on moral licensing and its effects on people's decision making skills. We became interested in furthering this research by looking into how moral licensing affects people when they are in different situations (individual, group leader, group member). The main purpose of our study is to examine whether moral licensing has different effects in peoples decision-making in public or private domains. We seek to find the answer to the question of whether the effect is manifested through our expectations of how others see us, or is it about an internal state of moral decency? We hope, through an on-campus experiment, that we will be able to find some significant answers to this question and better understand the moral licensing effect as a whole.
Faculty Sponsor
Travis Carter
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Psychology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1105
Moral Licensing Research Project
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Previous research has been done on moral licensing and its effects on people's decision making skills. We became interested in furthering this research by looking into how moral licensing affects people when they are in different situations (individual, group leader, group member). The main purpose of our study is to examine whether moral licensing has different effects in peoples decision-making in public or private domains. We seek to find the answer to the question of whether the effect is manifested through our expectations of how others see us, or is it about an internal state of moral decency? We hope, through an on-campus experiment, that we will be able to find some significant answers to this question and better understand the moral licensing effect as a whole.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/44