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moral wiggle room: a standalone construct

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Behavioral economics

exploiting uncertainty or ignorance about consequences to act selfishly while still appearing fair to oneself.

In behavioral economics, moral wiggle room refers to exploiting uncertainty or ignorance about consequences to act selfishly while still appearing fair to oneself. This meaning comes from Dana (2006) in Economic Theory.[1]

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Dana, J., Weber, R. A., & Kuang, J. X. (2006). Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness. Economic Theory, 33(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-006-0153-z

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