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Ratings of the morality of persons described as having committed moral and immoral behaviors indicate that good deeds do not make up for bad ones. The overall goodness of a person is determined mostly by his worst bad deed, with good deeds having lesser influence. Addition of moral deeds does improve ratings of sets containing low-valued items, but, consistent with previous research, this compensation appears to be. limited. Data suggest that performance of very immoral deeds limits the highest level of morality a person can achieve. The value of that limit appears to depend upon both the immorality of the bad deeds and the virtue of the good ones.
Riskey et al. (Tue,) studied this question.