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Take a moment to recall something nice you did for someone else. Perhaps you covered a class for a colleague, supported a friend going through difficult times, or helped an elderly neighbor complete her chores. Now, suppose you are faced with a new opportunity to help: A charity volunteer solicits your donation for a worthy cause. How would you behave? People may be more likely to act prosocially after recall-ing previous instances of moral behavior than if past moral missteps are salient. Thinking of past moral actions may highlight one’s self-conception as a moral individual and motivate one to act in line with this view of one’s moral self. In this view, conceiving of oneself as a moral individual con-strains one to continue acting in a moral fashion, lest one violate one’s sense of self (Blasi, 1980). Indeed, there is empirical evidence that people induced to view themselves as moral subsequently act more prosocially (e.g., Kraut, 1973; Reed, Aquino, & Levy, 2007). Alternatively, people may be less likely to act prosocially after recalling past moral behavior. Because acting morally has already validated their moral qualities, people might feel absolved from the need to prove themselves further. In this view, moral self-perceptions act as a self-regulatory mecha-nism motivating compensatory behavior: Feeling relatively moral reduces the motivation to act prosocially, whereas feeling relatively less moral increases the motivation to ac