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

Lisa M. McCool and Jennifer A. Bremser

SAGE Open, 2014, vol. 4, issue 3, 2158244014541774

Abstract: The purpose of this research study was to determine undergraduate students’ perceptions of ethical dilemmas as a means of measuring general concern for leadership ethics within the marketplace. With the end goal of identifying best practices for ethics education in business and to further aid our understanding of how individual factors, such as disgust sensitivity, can alter students’ moral assessments, we measured the relationship between emotion and cognition in affecting ethical decision making. We found specific coursework in business ethics can produce a significant gain in moral reasoning. These results suggest that in the absence of strong moral intuitions, discipline-specific ethics coursework can lead to more postconventional moral decision making.

Keywords: business ethics; moral development; social intuitionist theory; undergraduate education; cognition; evolutionary psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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