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October 12, 2025Environment and Social PsychologyOpen Access

Moral regulating role of environmental cleanliness: Evidences from both practices and field experiments

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LLLu LiGHGang HuangfuRMRan Ma

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Overview

Field experiments reveal that increased cleanliness improves moral judgments in workplaces, indicating the influence of environmental factors on morality.

Key Points

  • Improving environmental cleanliness can significantly reduce disciplinary violations among employees, enhancing workplace order.
  • In a clean workplace, employees judged immoral behaviors as more unacceptable compared to a dirty environment, showing the influence of cleanliness on moral perception.
  • Research involved multiple studies, including analysis of historical disciplinary records and controlled experiments in real workplaces.
  • Findings suggest a metaphorical link between cleanliness and societal moral standards, highlighting the importance of environmental factors.

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Li et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68ec1be02b8fa9b2b78ad0a1https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v10i9.4045
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