TY  - GEN
T1  - Vicarious Moral Licensing The influence of others' past moral actions on moral behavior.  [article].
A1  - Kouchaki, Maryam
LA  - English
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312437150
AB  - This articles investigates the effect of others' prior non-prejudiced behavior on an individual's subsequent behavior. Five studies supported the hypothesis that people are more willing to express prejudiced attitudes when their groups members' past behavior has established non-prejudiced credentials. Study 1a showed that participants who were told that their group was more moral than similar to other groups were more willing to describe a job as better suited for Whites that for African Americans. In study 1b, when given information on group members' prior nondiscriminatory behavior (selecting in Hispanic applicant in a prior task), participants subsequently gave more discriminatory ratings to the Hispanic applicant for a position steoreotypically suited for majority members (Whites). In study 2, moral self-concept mediated the effect of others' prior nonprejudiced actions on a participants subsequent prejudiced behaviors such that others pasts' nonprejudiced actions enhanced the participant's moral self-concept, and this inflated moral self-concept subsequently drove the participants' ratings of a Hispanic applicant in a prior.
KW  - Psychology-Periodicals.
KW  - Social Licensing.
KW  - Vicarious self-concept.
KW  - Moral credentials.
KW  - Prejudice.
KW  - Discrimination.
ER  -