Illustrating Cognitive Errors in Moral Decision Making

2020 ◽  
pp. 237929812096153
Author(s):  
Marie McKendall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Ethics ◽  
Ethics Framework ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Lasting Impression

Using a behavioral ethics framework and YouTube video clips, this exercise engages students in a demonstration of how people employ cognitive errors and self-deception to protect their interests when making ethical decisions. This approach helps instructors supplement lessons using normative theories to teach business ethics. Normative theories focus on the process of reasoning and offer decision rules for how people should make ethical decisions; behavioral ethics examines how people actually make such decisions and studies the frequent mistakes made during the process. Showing people actually making cognitive errors via video clips makes a stronger and more lasting impression than simply discussing it or reading about it.

scholarly journals Applying Deontology to Determine What Ought to be Done

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Thalia Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Teaching Career ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Course Of Action

This paper will broadly outline the theory of deontology with a specific focus on how the categorical imperative can be applied in moral decision making. The theory will then be applied to an issue to determine what course of action is consistent with the theory. Two strengths and two weaknesses that can be found in the literature will be considered and how the theory of deontology can be applied in a future teaching career to make ethical decisions will be discussed.

Leadership, morality and ethics: Developing a practical model for moral decision-making

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred W. Kaszniak ◽  
Cynda H. Rushton ◽  
Joan Halifax
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Contemplative Science ◽  
Practical Model

The present paper is the product of collaboration between a neuroscientist, an ethicist, and a contemplative exploring issues around leadership, morality, and ethics. It is an exploration on how people in roles of responsibility can better understand how to engage in discernment processes with more awareness and a deeper sense of responsibility for others and themselves. It draws upon recent research and scholarship in neuroscience, contemplative science, and applied ethics to develop a practical understanding of how moral decision-making works and is essential in this time when there can seem to be an increasing moral vacuum in leadership.

Framing Morality: How Antecedent-Focused Strategies Can Shape Moral Judgments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kappes ◽  
Jay Joseph Van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Process Dissociation ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
First Response ◽  
High Conflict

From moral philosophy to programming driverless cars, scholars have long been interested in how to shape moral decision-making. We examine how framing can impact moral judgments either by shaping which emotional reactions are evoked in a situation (antecedent-focused) or by changing how people respond to their emotional reactions (response-focused). In three experiments, we manipulated the framing of a moral decision-making task before participants judged a series of moral dilemmas. Participants encouraged to go “with their first” response beforehand favored emotion-driven judgments on high-conflict moral dilemmas. In contrast, participants who were instructed to give a “thoughtful” response beforehand or who did not receive instructions on how to approach the dilemmas favored reason-driven judgments. There was no difference in response-focused control during moral judgements. Process-dissociation confirmed that people instructed to go with their first response had stronger emotion-driven intuitions than other conditions. Our results suggest that task framing can alter moral intuitions.

Impact of a Novel Method of Ethics Education on Nurse Leaders’ Capacity for Moral Decision-Making:

Nurse Leader ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooklyn Aaron ◽  
Avery Glover ◽  
Evelina Sterling ◽  
Stuart Downs ◽  
Jason Lesandrini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Nurse Leaders ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Novel Method
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