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Licensing Effect
Self-licensing, sometimes called “moral licensing” or the “licensing effect,” is a social psychological term referring to our tendency to forgive bad behavior if it follows good behavior. “Bad” and “good,” of course, will be relative to one’s perception of these concepts, though they will typically refer to broadly immoral and moral behaviors. And in both cases these behaviors can be large or small, or a combination of large and small actions that will feel
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