Does feeling holier than others make one more or less moral? The effect of the belief in moral self-superiority on moral judgment, action, and sanctioning. KU Leuven
Most people believe that they possess morally good traits more, and morally bad traits less, than others (moral self-superiority). However, little is known about how this moral self-superiority plays out in terms of moral judgments, moral actions, and responses to moral actions of others. Exploring these effects may be consequential because of the influence of people’s self-views on their behavior, the fundamentally comparative nature of ...