Moral identity refers to the importance of morality to a person's identity, typically construed as either a trait-like individual difference, or set of chronically accessible schemas.[35][65] Moral identity is theorized to be one of the key motivational forces connecting moral reasoning to moral behavior,[65] as suggested by a 2016 meta-analysis reporting that moral identity is positively (albeit only modestly) associated with moral behavior.
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