• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing
  • Contributor: Engel, Jannis [Author]; Szech, Nora [Author]
  • imprint: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), 2017
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: moral personality ; moral self-licensing ; outsider beliefs ; preference module ; D84 ; cheap excuses ; homo moralis ; moral spillovers ; D03
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  • Description: We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This ‘static moral self-licensing’ would extend the logic of the well studied moral self-licensing over time. Our data document that static moral self-licensing exists. Furthermore, effects spill over to later, unrelated but ethically relevant contexts. Thus, static moral self-licensing and moral self-licensing over time amplify each other. Outsiders, though incentivized for correct estimates, are completely oblivious to effects of moral self-licensing, both, static and over time.
  • Access State: Open Access