The target of harm/help and its effect on moral credits.

• Main Author: Choo, Xin Ling.
• Other Authors: Lee Sau-Lai
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45132
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Moral licensing and moral cleansing are phenomena illustrating that people’s behaviours are due to an inflation or deflation of their self-concepts following a moral act or a transgression respectively. Building on research on these two moral self-regulation processes, this paper sought to find out...