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Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation

Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation

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Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation

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Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation

Publisher

Los Angeles, CA: Wiley Periodicals

Journal title

Psychological science, 2009-04, Vol.20 (4), p.523-528

Language

English

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Los Angeles, CA: Wiley Periodicals

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Contents

The question of why people are motivated to act altruistically has been an important one for centuries, and across various disciplines. Drawing on previous research on moral regulation, we propose a framework suggesting that moral (or immoral) behavior can result from an internal balancing of moral self-worth and the cost inherent in altruistic beh...

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Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67157465

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67157465

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ISSN

0956-7976

E-ISSN

1467-9280

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02326.x

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