{"id":2228,"date":"2009-06-27T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2009-06-27T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T07:18:00","slug":"saints-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/saints-sinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints &#038; Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I would post this at one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gnxp.com\/\">blogs<\/a>&#8230;but it might be relevant right now in politics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/122269055\/abstract?CRETRY=1&amp;SRETRY=0\">Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 behavior. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to write a self-relevant story containing words referring to either positive or negative traits. Participants who wrote a story referring to the positive traits donated one fifth as much as those who wrote a story referring to the negative traits. In Experiment 2, we showed that this effect was due specifically to a change in the self-concept. In Experiment 3, we replicated these findings and extended them to cooperative behavior in environmental decision making. We suggest that affirming a moral identity leads people to feel licensed to act immorally. However, when moral identity is threatened, moral behavior is a means to regain some lost self-worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/06\/090626141233.htm\">ScienceDaily<\/a> has a summary. Shorter: after strenuous exercise many people are apt to &#8220;treat themselves&#8221; to less than healthy concoctions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I would post this at one of my science blogs&#8230;but it might be relevant right now in politics. Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation: The question of why people are motivated to act altruistically has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/saints-sinners\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[75,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}