The Motivation to Comply with Internal or External Moral Expectations: Is Just One Motivation Enough?

• Main Author: LEE, Huey Woon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: pro-social behavior; social judgment; moral compensation; private self-consciousness; public self-consciousness; Cognition and Perception; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/110; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1111&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Although researchers have shown how the need to reduce internal discrepancies between one’s current level of morality and one’s moral standard and the need to reduce negative social judgment drive pro-social behaviors, it remains unclear if the presence of both these motivations has additive effects...