Moral Identity, Integrity, and Personal Responsibility

Schlenker, Barry R.; Miller, Marisa L.; Johnson, Ryan M.

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“…Actions are guided by a sense of personal responsibility that follows moral principles [1]. Responsibility attribution -- determining who is responsible for what outcomes -- underlies this process and is fundamental to the allocation of social resources.…”

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The Neural Basis of Responsibility Attribution in Decision-Making

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Social responsibility links personal behavior with societal expectations and plays a key role in affecting an agent’s emotional state following a decision. However, the neural basis of responsibility attribution remains unclear. In two previous event-related brain potential (ERP) studies we found that personal responsibility modulated outcome evaluation in gambling tasks. Here we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to identify particular brain regions that mediate responsibility attribution. In a context involving team cooperation, participants completed a task with their teammates and on each trial received feedback about team success and individual success sequentially. We found that brain activity differed between conditions involving team success vs. team failure. Further, different brain regions were associated with reinforcement of behavior by social praise vs. monetary reward. Specifically, right temporoparietal junction (RTPJ) was associated with social pride whereas dorsal striatum and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) were related to reinforcement of behaviors leading to personal gain. The present study provides evidence that the RTPJ is an important region for determining whether self-generated behaviors are deserving of praise in a social context.

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“…Additional integrity research is being conducted to determine how a person's moral commitments determine their personal and moral identity. Schlenker has developed an Integrity Scale to measure the strengths of a person's principled or ethical ideology as opposed to an expedient ideology that is far less committed to ethical principles (Schlenker, 2008;Schlenker, Miller, & Johnson, 2009). Other studies demonstrate that integrity tests that evaluate a job candidate's ethical behavior predict their ethical behavior on the job.…”

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“…In other moral identity research, Schlenker et al (2009) propose that a person of moral integrity commits to certain principles and that this changes her identity. Schlenker et.…”

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Leadership and the three faces of integrity

Bauman

2013

The Leadership Quarterly

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“…Given the interconnection between the moral and ethical domains in the behavioral and social scientific literature, researchers often rely on constructs related to attitudes, identities, and ideologies (cf. Schlenker, 2008;Schlenker, Miller, & Johnson, 2009), cognitive capabilities, such as moral judgment or moral reasoning (cf. Rest, 1994;Rest, Thoma, & Edwards, 1997), as well as emotional awareness and moral intuition (cf.…”

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Enhancing Perception in Ethical Decision Making: A Method to Address Ill-Defined Training Domains

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A mixed-method research approach was developed to address description, definition, and measurement in ill-defined training domains. A series of research efforts were conducted to demonstrate the approach and assess its viability. The ill-defined domain that served as the vehicle for this effort was the sense-making (perceptual and interpretive) process of the ethical decision making experience among United States Military Academy Cadets. Here, we empirically derived a thematic model of the ethical decision making experience based on a sample of written accounts. Using the thematic model, the Ethical Perceptions Scale (EPS) was developed to measure individual and group perceptual/interpretive preferences for ethical decision making with respect to military specific ethical dilemmas. A confirmatory factor analysis supported that the Ethical Perception Scale is measuring in accord with the thematic model. We also tested the reliability and construct validity of the scale; reliability was good and construct validity indicated that the scale measures in the correct conceptual domain. The model and scale are applicable to Professional Military Ethics training for Officer Cadets and newly commissioned junior officers to cover ROTC, OCS, and USMA. The research method demonstrated may be applied to address other ill-defined domains in Army, and other, research and training contexts.

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Moral Identity, Integrity, and Personal Responsibility

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The Neural Basis of Responsibility Attribution in Decision-Making

The Neural Basis of Responsibility Attribution in Decision-Making

Leadership and the three faces of integrity

Enhancing Perception in Ethical Decision Making: A Method to Address Ill-Defined Training Domains

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