Why does past moral behavior sometimes lead people to do more of the same (consistency),
whereas sometimes it liberates them to do the opposite (licensing)? We organize the …

How do people judge whether someone deserves moral praise for their actions? In contrast
to the large literature on moral blame, work on how people attribute praise has, until …

Research on the emotional, cognitive, and social determinants of moral judgment has
surged in recent years. The development of moral foundations theory (MFT) has played an …

Donating to charitable causes is generally perceived as a moral, prosocial behavior, but this
may not always be the case. Although moral identity tends to have a positive effect on …

Regulatory focus theory is proposed as offering an explanation for the influence of ethical
leadership on organizational citizenship behaviors and employee commitments. The …

We review studies looking at actors (eg, Do people practice what they preach? What are the
psychological consequences of moral hypocrisy?) and ones in which the focus was …

Despite extensive recent investigations of moral judgments, little is known about how
negative judgments like blame might differ from positive judgments like praise. Drawing on …

We propose that power increases how severely people punish transgressors. Further, we
argue that this greater severity stems from an increased sense of moral clarity instilled by the …

Environmental self-identity is considered a promising lever to generate positive spillovers
across pro-environmental behaviors: existing evidence shows that it is positively correlated …

A major obstacle for the design of rigorous, reproducible studies in moral psychology is the
lack of suitable stimulus sets. Here, we present the Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID), the …