| Moral self-licensing: When being good frees us to be bad AC Merritt, DA Effron, B Monin Social and Personality Psychology Compass 4 (5), 344-357, 2010 | 1212 | 2010 |
| Psychological license: When it is needed and how it functions DT Miller, DA Effron Advances in experimental social psychology 43, 115-155, 2010 | 513 | 2010 |
| Endorsing Obama licenses favoring whites DA Effron, JS Cameron, B Monin Journal of experimental social psychology 45 (3), 590-593, 2009 | 399 | 2009 |
| Embodied temporal perception of emotion. DA Effron, PM Niedenthal, S Gil, S Droit-Volet Emotion 6 (1), 1, 2006 | 279 | 2006 |
| Affirmation, acknowledgment of in-group responsibility, group-based guilt, and support for reparative measures. S Čehajić-Clancy, DA Effron, E Halperin, V Liberman, LD Ross Journal of personality and social psychology 101 (2), 256, 2011 | 270 | 2011 |
| Letting people off the hook: When do good deeds excuse transgressions? DA Effron, B Monin Personality and social psychology bulletin 36 (12), 1618-1634, 2010 | 232 | 2010 |
| Misinformation and morality: Encountering fake-news headlines makes them seem less unethical to publish and share DA Effron, M Raj Psychological science 31 (1), 75-87, 2020 | 173 | 2020 |
| The strategic pursuit of moral credentials AC Merritt, DA Effron, S Fein, KK Savitsky, DM Tuller, B Monin Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48 (3), 774-777, 2012 | 142 | 2012 |
| When virtue leads to villainy: Advances in research on moral self-licensing DA Effron, P Conway Current Opinion in Psychology 6, 32-35, 2015 | 141 | 2015 |
| Inventing racist roads not taken: The licensing effect of immoral counterfactual behaviors. DA Effron, DT Miller, B Monin Journal of personality and social psychology 103 (6), 916, 2012 | 131 | 2012 |
| From inconsistency to hypocrisy: When does “saying one thing but doing another” invite condemnation? DA Effron, K O’Connor, H Leroy, BJ Lucas Research in Organizational Behavior 38, 61-75, 2018 | 121 | 2018 |
| Entitativity and intergroup bias: How belonging to a cohesive group allows people to express their prejudices. DA Effron, ED Knowles Journal of personality and social psychology 108 (2), 234, 2015 | 112 | 2015 |
| It could have been true: How counterfactual thoughts reduce condemnation of falsehoods and increase political polarization DA Effron Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44 (5), 729-745, 2018 | 101 | 2018 |
| Making mountains of morality from molehills of virtue: Threat causes people to overestimate their moral credentials DA Effron Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 40 (8), 972-985, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| The unhealthy road not taken: Licensing indulgence by exaggerating counterfactual sins DA Effron, B Monin, DT Miller Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49 (3), 573-578, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
| Hypocrisy by association: When organizational membership increases condemnation for wrongdoing DA Effron, BJ Lucas, K O’Connor Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 130, 147-159, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| How the moralization of issues grants social legitimacy to act on one’s attitudes DA Effron, DT Miller Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38 (5), 690-701, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| Cheating at the end to avoid regret. DA Effron, CJ Bryan, JK Murnighan Journal of personality and social psychology 109 (3), 395, 2015 | 70 | 2015 |
| Do as I say, not as I’ve done: Suffering for a misdeed reduces the hypocrisy of advising others against it DA Effron, DT Miller Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 131, 16-32, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Hypocrisy and culture: Failing to practice what you preach receives harsher interpersonal reactions in independent (vs. interdependent) cultures DA Effron, HR Markus, LM Jackman, Y Muramoto, H Muluk Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 76, 371-384, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
