Behavioral Ethics in Practice: Why We Sometimes Make the Wrong Decisions

Author:   Cara Biasucci ,  Robert Prentice
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367341633


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   02 November 2020
Format:   Hardback
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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 behavioural psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology, the study of behavioural ethics uncovers the common reasons why good people often screw up. 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, detailed, 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 –business ethics, journalism, medicine, legal ethics, and others – because its chief subject is the nature of moral decision making. The book is also highly relevant to practitioners across all sectors.

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Author:   Cara Biasucci ,  Robert Prentice
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367341633


ISBN 10:   0367341638
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   02 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: 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 External Pressures 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. The Tangible & The Abstract 14. In-group Bias 15. Implicit Bias 16. Cognitive Dissonance 17. General Situational Factors 18. Temporal Situational Factors 19. Fundamental Attribution Error PART TWO: How to Improve Your Chances of Living a Life You’ll 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

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Cara Biasucci is Creator of Ethics Unwrapped, and Director of Ethics Education for the Center for Leadership and Ethics, University of Texas at Austin. For more than a decade, she made films for (among others) American Public Television, Discovery Times, New England Patriots, National Gallery of Art, and Johns Hopkins. Robert Prentice has for 40 years taught business law and ethics at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He is also Chair of the Business, Government & Society Department and Faculty Director of Ethics Unwrapped.

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