Endorsing Obama licenses favoring Whites

Effron, Daniel A.; Cameron, Jessica Schwartz; Monin, Benoît

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.001

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“…The concept of a moral bank account also implies that it is harder for people with high nutritional standards to earn moral credit by eating healthily; it is easier to earn credit in domains where one's standards are lower. Attitude strength moderates moral self-licensing (Effron et al, 2009) so it is unlikely that people feel they earn a license for moral compensation through moral behavior in a domain where they hold strong attitudes.…”

Section: Does Healthiness Increase Immoral Attitudes?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Nazis by Kraut: A Playful Application of Moral Self-Licensing

Messner¹,

Brügger²

2015

PSYCH

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Doing something moral gives one a license to do something immoral. This form of moral compensation is called "moral self-licensing". Interestingly, the moral behavior can take place in another domain than the subsequent immoral behavior. For example, buying eco-friendly products gives one a license to steal. This article is based on the idea that a healthy diet has a moral dimension. As a consequence, consuming a healthy product should give one a license for immoral behavior. This research supports this hypothesis on a playful study. This study shows that drinking sauerkraut juice contributes to a stronger support of Nazi-esque right wing ideology than drinking either nothing or a less-healthy beverage (Nestea).

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Section: Does Healthiness Increase Immoral Attitudes?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Nazis by Kraut: A Playful Application of Moral Self-Licensing

Messner¹,

Brügger²

2015

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“…That is, if people feel above a certain level of morality they feel authorized to occurs not only when the initial and subsequent actions happen within the same moral domain 19 (e.g., racial discrimination; Effron et al, 2009) but also when the domains are different (e.g., 20 altruistic behavior and pro-environmental behavior; Sachdeva et al, 2009). This illustrates 21 that a person's actions are interdependent rather than independent; current actions depend on 22 past decisions, even when the actions do not take place within the same moral domain.…”

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Completed egoism and intended altruism boost healthy food choices☆

Weibel¹,

Messner²,

Brügger³

2014

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“…Furthermore, a focus on additional limiting conditions by which Obama may give rise to social broadening is merited. For example, findings from a study by Effron, Cameron, and Monin (2009) suggested that endorsing Obama just before the 2008 election licensed individuals to make ambiguously racist statements; however, this effect held only for participants with higher scores on the Modern Racism Scale (MRS; McConahay, Hardee, & Batts, 1981), a measure of prejudice. At the same time, evidence suggests that implicit Black group identification among White respondents is associated with lower anti-Black bias, as well as pride of and support for Barack Obama (Craemer, 2014;Craemer, Shaw, Edwards, & Jefferson, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%