RETRACTED: The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of Immorality and Impurity
Abstract
The five experiments reported here demonstrate that authenticity is directly linked to morality. We found that experiencing inauthenticity, compared with authenticity, consistently led participants to feel more immoral and impure. This link from inauthenticity to feeling immoral produced an increased desire among participants to cleanse themselves and to engage in moral compensation by behaving prosocially. We established the role that impurity...
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Title
RETRACTED: The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of Immorality and Impurity
Published Date
May 11, 2015
Journal
Volume
26
Issue
7
Pages
983 - 996
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