What did you do before? Moral (in)consistency in pro-environmental choice: What did you do before? Moral (in)consistency in pro-environmental choice
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2018
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Sophie Clot et al., « What did you do before? Moral (in)consistency in pro-environmental choice: What did you do before? Moral (in)consistency in pro-environmental choice », Archive Ouverte d'INRAE, ID : 10670/1.jjihc6
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Rather than just examining moral licensing and cleansing at an aggregate level, we investigate experimentally the moral dynamics at an individual level. We also propose a formal definition of moral consistency or inconsistency (i.e., moral licensing and/or moral cleansing). We found that half our sample present inconsistent pro-environmental behaviour, independently of the way behavior is elicited (positive or negative framing). Men seem to behave more consistently over time, but when they compensate, they license (respectively cleanse) in a higher (respectively lesser) extent than women. We suggest that policies can improve their performances by avoiding a ‘one size fits all approach’ and take into account this heterogeneity of moral dynamics.