Three attempts to replicate the moral licensing effect

Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 232-238

  Blanken, Irene ^a   Van De Ven, Niels ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a   Meijers, Marijn H C ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Moral cleansing; Moral licensing; Replication; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901707699     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000189     Document Type: Article

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