The recognition of moral issues: moral awareness, moral sensitivity and moral attentiveness

Reynolds, Scott J.; Miller, Jared A.

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.007

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“…Learning about ethics includes both cognitive and emotive learning (McCuen and Shah, 2007), and business ethics education should acknowledge both. Perhaps one of the most challenging dimensions of teaching business ethics is guiding students to recognize the ethical component of an issue and not just frame it as strictly a business issue (see Reynolds and Miller 2015 for an excellent discussion of the importance of the recognition of moral issues). Neuroscience research can inform our understanding of brain activity as an individual recognizes the ethical dimension of an issue (Robertson et al, 2007).…”

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Business Ethics: The Promise of Neuroscience

2016

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Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience research portend well for furthering understanding of many of the fundamental questions in the field of business ethics, both normative and empirical. This article provides an overview of neuroscience methodology and brain structures, and explores the areas in which neuroscience research has contributed findings of value to business ethics, as well as suggesting areas for future research. Neuroscience research is especially capable of providing insight into individual reactions to ethical issues, while also raising challenging normative questions about the nature of moral responsibility, autonomy, intent, and free will. This article also provides a brief summary of the papers included in this special issue, attesting to the richness of scholarly inquiry linking neuroscience and business ethics. We conclude that neuroscience offers considerable promise to the field of business ethics, but we caution against overpromise.

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“…Second, recognizing a moral issue is the first and most critical step in ethical decision making (Reynolds & Miller, 2015). Past studies have found that moral attentiveness is positively related to moral awareness and behaviors (Reynolds, 2008).…”

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The effect of formalism on unethical decision making: The mediating effect of moral disengagement and moderating effect of moral attentiveness

Dong

Lü

et al. 2020

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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This study examined the relationship between formalism and unethical decision making among Chinese working adults. A total of 316 Chinese adult employees completed measures of ethical predispositions, unethical decision making, moral disengagement, and moral attentiveness. The results showed that formalism was related to a weaker propensity to morally disengage. Moral disengagement positively predicted unethical decision making and mediated the relationship between formalism and unethical decision making. Further, perceptual moral attentiveness negatively moderated the relationship between formalism and moral disengagement. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are presented.

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“…First, instead of focusing on consumption experiences that are clearly moral, such as donations to charity (Lee, Winterich, & Ross, ; Winterich, Zhang, & Mittal, ), or clearly immoral/illegal, such as shoplifting (Babin & Babin, ; Cox, Cox, & Moschis, ), this research focuses on consumer reactions to legal but morally ambiguous experiences. In doing so, the article further advances the field by demonstrating that over and above moral sensitivity (i.e., how much one reacts to clearly moral or immoral conduct; Fiske, ; Molenberghs, Gapp, Wang, Louis, & Decety, ; Leidner et al., ), moral consideration (i.e., the likelihood an individual will judge an ambiguous experience from a moral perspective in the first place) is an important construct for understanding when and how consumers react to morally ambiguous stimuli (see Reynolds & Miller, , for a related discussion). Finally, our findings and theoretical arguments detail how differences in social identity strength help explain, at least in part, the highly opposing views consumers often have towards the very same consumption experience.…”

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From Slum Tourism to Smiley Selfies: The Role of Social Identity Strength in the Consumption of Morally Ambiguous Experiences

Schuckmann¹,

Barros

Dias³

et al. 2017

J Consum Psychol

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Why do some consumers find a consumption activity appealing while others see it as morally appalling? A series of five experiments in two different morally ambiguous contexts shows that differences in social identity strength can in part explain discrepant reactions to the very same consumption experience. Consumers who identify weakly (vs. strongly) with the people most related to the consumption environment are less likely to question the experience on moral grounds. As a result, they are more likely to choose a morally ambiguous consumption experience or to act in a morally ambiguous manner. The impact of social identity strength on consumer preference vanishes when the consumption experience is morally neutral or when all consumers are prompted to judge the experience on moral grounds. Statistical analyses based on post hoc justifications provide further evidence for the mediating role of moral considerations.

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The recognition of moral issues: moral awareness, moral sensitivity and moral attentiveness

Cited by 59 publications

References 40 publications

Business Ethics: The Promise of Neuroscience

Business Ethics: The Promise of Neuroscience

The effect of formalism on unethical decision making: The mediating effect of moral disengagement and moderating effect of moral attentiveness

From Slum Tourism to Smiley Selfies: The Role of Social Identity Strength in the Consumption of Morally Ambiguous Experiences

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