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