Moral Licensing
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Published 2018-12-05
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All Comments (21)
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Conclusion: always be SUPER kind because you never know when you could be in a mind field study.
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Chaotic evil: throw trash in the lake and rob the homeless man
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Main lesson from the second experiment: if you look confident enough while stealing something, people will assume you have a legitimate reason to take that thing.
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Moral of this story: Help out people when you can. you never know when Michael comes out of the corner and tells you that you are his guinea pig for his "social experiments".
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I'd love to see Michael put in these situations unknowingly, given everything he's learned, and see how he responds.
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lol that dude "i didnt have time to" after spending the whole thing texting. Micheal was so kind in the way he pointed it out as well lol
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I feel like making the security guards accuse the kid, and have him insist he didn't do it, along with putting the participants in a crowd and making their action anonymous, would make the results more accurate. I feel like a large part of this was due to sheer confusion at this kid's instant and baseless act of taking the blame rather than actual moral reasoning.
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This idea of moral licensing could explain a phenomenon I've read about and witnessed personally. Parties of churchgoers who go to a restaurant after services, are notoriously bad tippers and can be surprisingly obnoxious. According to the theory, they've been extra good for an hour or so, and feel like they can be jerks afterwards.
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"I didn't have time to help clean" He was browsing on his phone, he was just being a lazy ass, and didn't even feel bad about it.
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It pays off to be patient.
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I cannot convey my admiration for those who helped twice they're great people
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Michael did come over. He admitted multiple times he’s the one that answered the door and just stopped after being ignored multiple times. The other folks that let the kid take the blame I think the way they looked at it was the kid volunteered on his own and he’ll get in less trouble being a 12 year old than they would and justified it that way.
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I think the fact that it was a kid creates an extra variable here. People will be taking into account that the kid probably won't get into serious trouble, while them as adults probably would.
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I feel like this show made me a better person by making me fear that I get recorded doing something bad and people ask me why I did it later
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I know that if this experiment has ever been replicated this has been rectified, but I think one of the main reasons the people who gave up Noah may have done so is due to some sense of confusion as opposed to moral liscencing. Granted, there was evidence of liscencing happening, but it’s clear that confusion was a significant factor in letting Noah take the fall that may skew any data
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The cycle of judgement to humility while watching this is CRAZY. We are all like this.
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What if this "all episodes are free until the end of the year" is another experiment from Michael and we are all a part of that experiment. I don't know what that experiment could be but maybe it is an experiment. I don't know and as always thanks for reading.
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I DidNT hAvE TiMe tO CLEaN tHe pARk.
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It looked to me like each of the participants were surprised or confused by the kid taking blame. I guess when we're dumbfounded or confused, by default, we tend to protect ourselves by deflecting away the results of an uncertain (or possibly bad) outcome.
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Plot twist: Michael is conducting a test on himself to see what a person turns into after testing many people in different psychological tests.
