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ethical dissonance: a standalone construct

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Behavioral ethics

the tension between one's own past wrongdoing and one's moral self-image, which people may reduce by judging others' ethics more harshly.

In behavioral ethics, ethical dissonance refers to the tension between one's own past wrongdoing and one's moral self-image, which people may reduce by judging others' ethics more harshly. This meaning comes from Barkan (2012) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.[1]

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Barkan, R., Ayal, S., Gino, F., & Ariely, D. (2012). The pot calling the kettle black: Distancing response to ethical dissonance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 757-773. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027588

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