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When Good Actions Have Mixed Motives

I volunteer at a food bank every week and feel good about it, but I also know I do it partly to feel better about having so much money.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The purity of altruistic intention is often complicated by psychological needs for moral self-worth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Moral psychology — how we make ethical decisions?”

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