215. Is It Okay to Do the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?

What’s wrong with donating to charity for the tax write-off? Should we think less of people who do volunteer work to pad their resumes? And why is Angela stopping women in public parks to compliment them?

SOURCES:Bill Gates • , co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Geoffrey Goodwin • , professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Jon Huntsman • , politician, diplomat, and businessman. Immanuel Kant • , 18th-century German philosopher. Emrys Westacott • , professor of philosophy at Alfred University.

RESOURCES: • " How Inferred Motives Shape Moral Judgements • ," by Ryan W. Carlson, Yochanan E. Bigman, Kurt Gray, Melissa J. Ferguson, and M. J. Crockett ( Nature Reviews Psychology, • 2022). • " Just 2 Minutes of Walking After a Meal Is Surprisingly Good for You • ," by Rachel Fairbank ( The New York Times, • 2022). • " Psychological Egoism • ," by Emrys Westacott ( ThoughtCo, • 2020). • " A Meta-Analytic Review of Moral Licensing • ," by Irene Blanken, Niels van de Ven, and Marcel Zeelenberg ( Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, • 2015). • " Selfish or Selfless? On the Signal Value of Emotion in Altruistic Behavior • ," by Alixandra Barasch, Emma E. Levine, Jonathan Z. Berman, and Deborah A. Small ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, • 2014). • " Greenwashing — the Deceptive Tactics Behind Environmental Claims • ," by the United Nations.

EXTRAS: • " Giving It Away • ," by People I (Mostly) Admire • (2022). • " How Can We Get More Virtue and Less ‘Virtue Signaling’? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2020). • " Does Doing Good Give You License to Be Bad? • " by Freakonomics Radio • (2018).