Moral Licensing: How Good Deeds Allow Bad Behavior

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Obama-vote licensing study is Effron, Cameron & Monin (2009), JESP 45(3), 590-593, not JPSP 96(3), 513-525 (which is a different Effron & Monin paper). | Same Obama-vote study misattributed to JPSP 96(3), 513-525; correct source is JESP 45(3), 590-593.

   Before

   Effron, D. A., & Monin, B. (2009). Letting people off the hook: When do good deeds excuse transgressions? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(3), 513-525.

   After

   Effron, D. A., Cameron, J. S., & Monin, B. (2009). Letting people off the hook: When do good deeds excuse transgressions? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(3), 590-593.

   Why: Article body prose already correctly cites Effron, Cameron, and Monin (2009) in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in both narrative mentions. However the bibliography/references list entry at the bottom of the article still had the stale, misattributed citation (missing Cameron as co-author, wrong journal/volume/pages matching a different Effron & Monin paper).

   Fixed the bibliography entry to match the correct citation used in the body. FAQ JSON-LD block was already clean (its Journal of Personality and Social Psychology mention refers to a separate, correctly-cited Monin & Miller 2001 paper).

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