Being clean and acting dirty: The paradoxical effect of self-cleansing

Thalma E. Lobel; Allon Cohen; Lior Kalay Shahin; Shimon Malov; Yaniv Golan; Shani Busnach

doi:10.1080/10508422.2014.931230

Being clean and acting dirty: The paradoxical effect of self-cleansing

Thalma E. Lobel^*, Allon Cohen, Lior Kalay Shahin, Shimon Malov, Yaniv Golan, Shani Busnach

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School of Psychological Sciences

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

In two studies we investigated the association between physical cleansing and moral and immoral behavior in real-life situations. In Study 1, after a workout at the gym, participants cheated more after taking a shower than before taking one. In the second study, participants donated more money to charity before rather than after they bathed for religious purification. The results extend previous findings about moral cleansing and moral licensing and are discussed within the framework of conceptual metaphor theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-313
Number of pages	7
Journal	Ethics and Behavior
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2014.931230
State	Published - 4 Jul 2015

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Cheating
Licensing
Morality

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