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Why Does the “Sinner” Act Prosocially? The Mediating Role of Guilt and the Moderating Role of Moral Identity in Motivating Moral Cleansing

Numerous studies have found that people tend to commit prosocial acts subsequent to previous immoral acts, as a response to the latter. This phenomenon is called moral cleansing or moral compensation. However, the specific mechanism how previous immoral acts motivate moral compensatory behaviors is...

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Published in:Front Psychol
Main Authors: Ding, Wan, Xie, Ruibo, Sun, Binghai, Li, Weijian, Wang, Duo, Zhen, Rui
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014871/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27660617
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01317
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