Behavioral ethics in practice : why we sometimes make the wrong decisions / Cara Biasucci and Robert Prentice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biasucci, Cara, 1964- author.

Prentice, Robert, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"This book is an accessible, research-based introduction to behavioral ethics. Often ethics education is incomplete because it ignores how and why people make moral decisions. But using exciting new research from fields such as behavioral psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology, the study of behavioral ethics uncovers the common reasons why good people often screw up. Chapters coordinate with free online teaching resources from The University of Texas at Austin. Scientists have long studied the ways human beings make decisions, but only recently have researchers begun to focus specifically on ethical decision making. Unlike philosophy and religion, which aim to tell people how to think and act about various moral issues, behavioral ethics research reveals the factors that influence how people really make moral decisions. Most people get into ethical trouble for doing obviously wrong things. Aristotle cannot help, but learning about behavioral ethics can. By supplementing traditional approaches to teaching ethics with a clear, accessible, detailed, and research-based introduction to behavioral ethics, beginners can quickly become familiar with the important elements of this new field. This book includes the bonus of being coordinated with Ethics Unwrapped-a free, online, educational resource featuring award-winning videos and teaching materials on a variety of behavioral ethics (and general ethics) topics. This book is a useful supplement for virtually every ethics course, and important in any course where incorporating practical ethics in an engaging manner is paramount. The content applies to every discipline-journalism, business ethics, medicine, legal ethics, and others-because its chief subject is the nature of moral decision making. Because the book is research-based yet accessibly written with interesting studies, it could be used in high schools, colleges, graduate schools, and industry"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Original Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Part I Why it's hard to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are

1 Making moral judgments

2 How emotions influence ethics

3 Moral action decisions and moral reasoning flaws

4 Obedience to authority

5 Conformity bias

6 Overconfidence bias

7 Self-serving bias

8 Framing

9 Incrementalism

10 Loss aversion

11 Role morality

12 Moral equilibrium

13 Tangible and abstract

14 In-group bias

15 Implicit bias

16 Cognitive dissonance

17 General situational factors

18 Temporal factors

19 Fundamental attribution error

Part II How to improve your chances of living a life you can be proud of

20 Being your best self

21 Rationalizations and other mechanisms of moral disengagement

22 Giving voice to your values

23 Creating a culture that makes it easier to do the right thing

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-20785-4

0-429-32424-3

1-000-20793-5

9780429324246

OCLC:

1162388358