{"id":440296,"date":"2010-03-17T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5376"},"modified":"2010-03-17T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:46:01","slug":"being-green-makes-you-mean-why-environmentally-friendly-shoppers-are-more-likely-to-lie-and-cheat-by-david-derbyshire-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440296","title":{"rendered":"Being green makes you mean: Why environmentally friendly shoppers are more likely to lie and cheat by David Derbyshire, Daily Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Environmentally aware consumers are more likely to lie, cheat and be unkind than regular shoppers, a study suggests. <\/p>\n

Researchers say that people have a limited stock of goodwill and that being virtuous in one part of life leads to meanness in another. The phenomenon – dubbed ‘ compensatory ethics’ – came to light in a series of experiments carried out by psychologists at the University of Toronto. <\/p>\n

Nina Mazar, who led the study, said: ‘People act less altruistically and are more likely to cheat and steal after purchasing green products as opposed to conventional products.’
\nHer team paid 90 volunteers $5 to take part in an experiment designed to find out whether green consumption affects morality. <\/p>\n

The students were split into two groups and told to buy goods in either a normal online store, or an internet store selling environmentally friendly products. The green consumers were found more likely to cheat at a simple computer game than those who used the conventional store. And when they were invited to take a certain amount of money from an envelope as their reward, the green shoppers tended to take more cash than they were entitled too. <\/p>\n

The authors report in the journal Psychological Science: ‘The halo associated with green consumerism has to be taken with reservations. ‘While mere exposure to green products can have a positive effect by inducing prosocial and ethical acts, purchasing green products may license indulgence in self-interested and unethical behaviours.’ <\/p>\n

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