MGMD10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prosocial Behavior
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Striving for the moral self: the effects of recalling past moral actions on future. Moral behavior written j. jordon, e. mullen, and j. k. murnighan looks at the application of the self-completion theory to demonstrate how the recollection of an individual"s immoral behavior results in compensatory action to complete the moral self. Because an individual"s perception and behavior can be manipulated by numerous factors; it is valuable to understand the likelihood and generalization of how people behave as a result of a specific stimuli. Thus, this paper attempts to define the future methods, decisions, and actions of an individual based on remembrance of past immoral behaviors. Study 1 seeks to compare the effects of recalling one"s own immoral behavior versus recalling one"s own moral behavior and its impact on pro-social intentions. The study predicts that the internal moral identity score remains stable and high across conditions but that symbolic moral identity scores will exhibit compensatory effects.
