ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Increasing Self-Knowledge to Promote Moral Behavior
The functioning of societies and the quality of interpersonal relationships heavily depend on moral behaviors such as fairness, cooperation, and honesty, whereas immoral behaviors bear tremendous societal costs. A long-standing puzzle facing the social sciences and the humanities is how to promote moral behavior. The prevalent approach is to modify the situation, e.g., through implementing rewards for moral and sanctions for immoral behavior or through nudging. Community and organizational policies invariably resort to such interventions to foster moral action. However, situation-based approaches are distinctly limited: they inhibit more consistent behavior change that extends to situations…
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