Browsing by Subject "Ethics"
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A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts. -
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts. -
Accountability as it influences ethical behavior.
(2001)The Ethical Decision-Making Model with Accountability proposes that various forms of accountability will influence ethical intentions, with moral intensity moderating this relationship. The model also shows that cognitive ... -
Character and Moral Judgment: Designing Right and Wrong
(2019-05-10)I argue that an adequate theory of rightness should meet (at least) two distinct conditions: a “Consequences Condition” according to which the rightness or wrongness of some, but not all acts should be determined conclusively ... -
Consequences Identification in Forecasting and Ethical Decision-making
(2010)This study examined how the number and types of consequences considered impacts forecasting and ethical decision-making. Undergraduate participants took on the role of the key actor in several ethical problems and were ... -
Economic foundations of morality: Questions of transparency and ethics in Russian journalism
(University of Wroclaw Press, 2015-08)This study examines the questions of ethics and transparency in Russian journalism. The paper explains instances of non-transparent behavior among Russian journalists in light of economic hardship that Russian journalists ... -
Educated Decision-Makers are Harder to Bias: Comparing Education and Nudges on Reliable Deliberation about Recycled Water
(2023-08)Recently, it has become important to define ethical rules governing the most appropriate ways to interact with those that decision interventions seek to influence. However, philosophical theories and current methods of ... -
Elicitors and Effects of an Awe Experience
(2017)While efforts have been made to define the nature and effects of experiencing awe (e.g., Keltner & Haidt, 2003; Shiota, Keltner, & Mossman, 2007), there is still much about the emotion which remains unexplored. One of the ... -
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE COUNCIL FOR THE ACCREDITATION OF EDUCATOR PREPARATION
(2019-05)The standard of excellence in teacher preparation is accreditation by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). Millions of dollars, untold hours of human effort, and countless pages of reports go ... -
Exploring the toxic triangle: the effects of leadership, team mental models, and core self evaluations on follower sensemaking and ethical decision making
(2023)Leadership is an omnipresent aspect of daily life, particularly in organizational settings. While research has extensively examined constructive leadership and its effects on follower and organizational performance, there ... -
Heroes Great and Small: The Rebirth of Honor
(2012)I argue that our modern ethical conceptions suffer by largely divorcing ethics from the rest of human life and treating it as just one possible concern among others. Rejecting a strong distinction between moral and non-moral ... -
Integrity and its Puzzles
(2017-05)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 08, May 2017. -
An investigation into the effects of birth order, sex, and personality on the likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior.
(2003)Recently revived interest in the role of birth order in the development of personality has resulted in research investigating the relationship between birth order and the five-factor model (FFM) of personality. One ... -
The Moral Mosaic: Characteristics Predict Likelihood of Personal Ethical Decisions and Prosocial Behavior
(2019-05-10)This research provides a multidimensional approach to predicting unethical or prosocial behavior by identifying the underlying factor structure of 35 well-established scales linked to moral behavior. A novel measure of ... -
Motivating Morality: Linking Moral Foundations and Fundamental Motives
(2021)What motivates moral judgments? The fundamental motives model proposes that people have a set of psychological mechanisms that motivate behavior (Kenrick et al, 2011). The self protection motive functions to protect one ... -
Naturalized virtue ethics.
(2003)In Chapter 5, I place NVE is the space of contemporary virtue theories and also contrast it with eudaimonistic or welfare-based ethics and with evolutionary ethics. NVE is a good-based virtue theory, but it is neither a ... -
Revising impressions with the authority moral foundation
(2021)Past research argues that judgments of morality supersede warmth or competence when forming impressions, and that some people will revise an impression based on highly diagnostic moral information. Moral Foundations Theory ... -
The role of emotions and cognitive biases in ethical decisions
(2017-05)Ethical sensemaking is a process of gathering and organizing information in a meaningful way to guide understanding of a situation. Ethical situations in organizations are dynamic with new information often emerging over ... -
The role of metaphysics, common-sense, and interpretations of classical Greek philosophy in Sidgwick's utilitarianism and Whitehead's virtue ethics.
(2000)Whitehead's metaphysical and ethical arguments accomplish two related goals. The first is a criticism of modern ethical theory---the Utilitarian views of Sidgwick and Mill and the Theistic Intuitionism of the Cambridge ...