Moral Overload: How Competing Moral Demands Undermine Political Action

• In Event: Morality in Political Behavior

Brief Overview

We introduce moral overload (facing competing moral demands) as a structural challenge to civic engagement in modern democracies. Two experimental studies show it increases zero-sum perceptions of morality and reduces sustained prosocial engagement.

Authors

• Ilona Goldner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Stony Brook University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem