Moral Self-Indulgence On Helping vs Expressing As social creatures, we care a lot about others’ attitudes towards us. And since we lack direct access to others’ minds, we care a lot about what their outward behavior expresses or reveals about their underlying attitudes. Since others are likewise apt to be hypervigilant about the expressive significance of our behavior, it can be to our social advantage to act in ways that signal our value as loyal and reliable allies. Commonsense morality is...