Moral Credentials / Self-Licensing
Consistency Versus Licensing Effects of Past Moral Behavior (with Elizabeth Mullen). Annual Review of Psychology, Vol 67, 363-385, January 2016.
The unhealthy road not taken: Licensing indulgence by exaggerating counterfactual sins (with Daniel A. Effron, Dale T. Miller). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol 49, 573-578, May 2013.
Inventing racist roads not taken: The licensing effect of immoral counterfactual behaviors (with Daniel A. Effron, Dale T. Miller). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 103, no 6, 916-932, December 2012.
The strategic pursuit of moral credentials (with Anna C. Merritt, Daniel A. Effron, Steven Fein, Kenneth K. Savitsky, Daniel M. Tuller). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol 48, May 2012, 774-777.
Letting People Off the Hook: When Do Good Deeds Excuse Transgressions? (with Daniel A. Effron). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol 36, No 12, 1618-1634.
Moral Self-Licensing: When Being Good Frees Us to Be Bad (with Anna C. Merritt, Daniel A. Effron). Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Vol 4, No 5, May 2010, 334-357.
Endorsing Obama licenses favoring Whites (with Daniel A. Effron, Jessica S. Cameron). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol 45, No 3, May 2009, 590-593.
Moral credentials and the expression of prejudice (with Dale T. Miller). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 81, No 1, July 2001, 33-43.