A little good is good enough: Ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing
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Keywords
moral self-licensing; moral spillovers; cheap excuses; outsider beliefs; moral personality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2017-05-07 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2017-05-07 (Experimental Economics)
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