Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad

Re:Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad by hannob on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:42PM (#19106812)

It should be noted that some questions have been raised about the underlying theory of "moral licensing" and there have been replication failures of key studies: https://psyarxiv.com/wynjb/

The article imho does a poor job of evaluating how reliable the research that it quotes is.

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Re:Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad by adolph on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:10PM (#19107042)

I first learned of the concept from Malcom Gladwell's podcast:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/01-the-lady-vanishes/

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