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First published 2015-4

A Meta-Analytic Review of Moral Licensing

Irene Blanken, Niels van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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First published 2026

Entitlement in the polity: Moral self-licensing and CEO activism

Amon Barros, Caio César Coelho Rodrigues

Organization

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First published 2025

Observation Moderates the Moral Licensing Effect: A Meta-Analytic Test of Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Mechanisms

Amanda Rotella, Jisoo Jung, Christopher Chinn [...]

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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First published 2024-6

Nonprofit Organizational Identification,Moral License,and Whiteness: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonprofit Work on the White Morality Myth

Nuri Heckler

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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First published 2023-1

Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference,Not Licensing by Observers

Jan Urban, Štěpán Bahník, Markéta Braun Kohlová

Environment and Behavior

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First published 2026

‘The Dark Side of Ethical Leadership’: How Machiavellianism and Moral Licensing Encourage Knowledge Hiding?

Poornima Madan, Umesh Bamel, Aparna Mendiratta [...]

Global Business Review

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First published 2019-11

Taking Close Others’ Environmental Behavior Into Account When Striking the Moral Balance? Evidence for Vicarious Licensing,Not for Vicarious Cleansing

Marijn H. C. Meijers, Marret K. Noordewier, Peeter W. J. Verlegh [...]

Environment and Behavior

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First published 2024

From Good Citizens to Bad Apples? The Effect of Boredom Proneness: A Moral Licensing Perspective

Shih Yung Chou, Tree Chang, Sangeetha Lakshman

Psychological Reports

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First published 2022-9

When “Good People” Sexually Harass: The Role of Power and Moral Licensing on Sexual Harassment Perceptions and Intentions

Tuyen K. Dinh, Laurel Mikalouski, Margaret S. Stockdale

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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First published 2009-3

Revisiting a Moral Panic: Ascetic Protestantism,Attitudes to Alcohol and the Implementation of the Licensing Act 2003

Henry Yeomans

Sociological Research Online

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