Unpacking the impact of gratitude on unethical behavior

Understanding and preventing unethical behavior is essential for social welfare. Prior research has shown that emotional processes have consequential effects on such behavior. The current work aims to unravel the mixed findings relating positive emotion to unethical behavior by suggesting that feeli...

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Authors: Oh, Junho (Author) ; Kim, Ye Kang (Author) ; Park, Guihyun (Author) ; Lee, Sujin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Deviant behavior
Year: 2024, Volume: 45, Issue: 8, Pages: 1155-1169
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Keywords:
Felt-security
Gratitude
Greed
Moral Disengagement
Positive emotion
Unethical Behavior
Verhalten
Ethik
Emotion
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Summary:Understanding and preventing unethical behavior is essential for social welfare. Prior research has shown that emotional processes have consequential effects on such behavior. The current work aims to unravel the mixed findings relating positive emotion to unethical behavior by suggesting that feeling gratitude may differentially influence one’s ethicality through three distinct pathways: cognitive (moral disengagement), motivational (greed), and relational (felt-security). Through our propositions, we advance a conceptual model for investigating the relationships among general positive emotion, gratitude, and unethical behavior, to gain clarity on these important connections. More broadly, researchers could use our model to illuminate a range of pathways linking gratitude and unethical behavior.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 1165-1169
Physical Description:Illustration
ISSN:1521-0456
DOI:10.1080/01639625.2023.2278510