Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Do Not Influence Moral Reasoning, but a Discipline-Specific Ethics Course Does | Zendy

Lisa M. McCool | Zendy; Jennifer A. Bremser | Zendy

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Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Do Not Influence Moral Reasoning, but a Discipline-Specific Ethics Course Does

Author(s) -

Lisa M. McCool,

Jennifer A. Bremser

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244014541774

Subject(s) - coursework , disgust , moral reasoning , psychology , moral disengagement , need for cognition , social cognitive theory of morality , moral development , social psychology , perception , cognition , meta ethics , moral psychology , engineering ethics , nursing ethics , pedagogy , anger , neuroscience , psychiatry , engineering

The purpose of this research study was to determine undergraduatestudents’ perceptions of ethical dilemmas as a means of measuring general concern forleadership ethics within the marketplace. With the end goal of identifying bestpractices for ethics education in business and to further aid our understanding of howindividual factors, such as disgust sensitivity, can alter students’ moral assessments,we measured the relationship between emotion and cognition in affecting ethical decisionmaking. We found specific coursework in business ethics can produce a significant gainin moral reasoning. These results suggest that in the absence of strong moralintuitions, discipline-specific ethics coursework can lead to more postconventionalmoral decision making

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