STUDY: "Green" consumers more likely to be vicious to others, thieves, system cheaters - Hmmm Posted: Dec 30th, 2017 - 5:53 pm
How going green may make you mean
Ethical consumers less likely to be kind and more likely to steal, study finds
"According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the 'licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour, otherwise known as 'moral balancing' or 'compensatory ethics'.
Do Green Products Make Us Better People is published in the latest edition of the journal Psychological Science. Its authors, Canadian psychologists Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong, argue that people who wear what they call the 'halo of green consumerism' are less likely to be kind to others, and more likely to cheat and steal. 'Virtuous acts can license subsequent asocial and unethical behaviours,' they write. [See footnote].
The pair found that those in their study who bought green products appeared less willing to share with others a set amount of money than those who bought conventional products. When the green consumers were given the chance to boost their money by cheating on a computer game and then given the opportunity to lie about it – in other words, steal – they did, while the ..."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/15/green-consumers-more-likely-steal
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