"Ethics" prior post follow-up.

"Every year I ask my Stanford students to send me their top seven principles (e.g., below, 2019). Some choose personal traits, like honesty and curiosity; others select priorities, such as education and family. I generally recommend that individuals and organizations consider somewhere in the range of five to eight principles." (Dr. Susan Liautaud, The Power of Ethics, p. 26 et seq.)

1. Honesty
2. Integrity
3. Kindness
4. Compassion
5. Loyalty
6. Empathy
7. Authenticity

Much discussion ensues regarding the practical importance of honesty, as least as expressed by the academic elites of places such as Stanford.

per "elites"—Oops...

NY Times.

When behavioral-science researchers are accused of misbehavior, the allegations have a funny way of being a little on the nose. The former Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser, author of Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong, was found to have fabricated data and manipulated results. The University of Michigan psychologist Lawrence Sanna, who studied judgment and decision making, resigned after facing similar allegations. Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist whose work touched on such topics as selfishness and morality, fabricated data at least 50 times, making him “perhaps the biggest con man in academic science.” And last month, Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School professor who studies dishonesty—and who wrote a book titled Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life—was accused of falsifying data in at least four papers, three of which are on their way to being retracted. Her accusers now suggest that Gino, who has been placed on administrative leave from Harvard, may have faked data in dozens of her other published papers.

…The obvious irony of Gino’s situation makes for a punchy headline—“Dishonesty Researcher Accused of Dishonesty”—but it also speaks to a vexing paradox of human behavior, one that Gino has herself returned to again and again in her academic work. “Researchers across disciplines have become increasingly interested,” she wrote in a 2014 paper, “in understanding why even people who care about morality predictably cross ethical boundaries.” Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that she is such a person—someone who cares about doing right but, at some point, for some reason, started doing wrong…

Hmmm...

SOME COOL STUFF FROM TX McCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: CONCEPTS UNWRAPPED

36 short videos well worth your time and attention. Excellent job, folks.

All is Not Relative
Appropriation & Attribution
Being Your Best Self, Part 1: Moral Awareness
Being Your Best Self, Part 2: Moral Decision Making
Being Your Best Self, Part 3: Moral Intent
Being Your Best Self, Part 4: Moral Action
Bounded Ethicality
Causing Harm
Cognitive Dissonance
Conflict of Interest
Conformity Bias
Ethical Fading
Ethical Leadership, Part 1: Perilous at the Top
Ethical Leadership, Part 2: Best Practices
Framing
Fundamental Attribution Error
Fundamental Moral Unit
Implicit Bias
Incentive Gaming
Incrementalism
Intro to Behavioral Ethics
Legal Rights & Ethical Responsibilities
Loss Aversion
Moral Agent & Subject of Moral Worth
Moral Emotions
Moral Equilibrium
Moral Imagination
Moral Muteness
Moral Myopia
Obedience to Authority
Overconfidence Bias
Representation
Role Morality
Self-serving Bias
Systematic Moral Analysis
Tangible & Abstract

NOTE: Their complete glossary comprises 58 video items.

TUES UPDATE: I've just finished reviewing all 58..

A COUPLE OF RELEVANT READS

 

 

JUSTIN GREGG'S BOOK

Humans have been designed by evolution to be liars. Liars that are, strangely enough, susceptible to lies. This is a problem unique to our species. We are not an exceptional species because we can deceive; as we’ve seen, other species—from insects to cuttlefish—produce communicative signals that contain false information. And a few of them even intend to deceive others. But our species has weaved the intention to deceive—to lie by manipulating the beliefs of others—into the very fabric of our brand of social cognition. At best, we can educate our children to be sensitive to the proliferation of false information, and to want to reduce the harm it causes. But we cannot remove the human capacity to both produce and believe lies any more than we can remove our capacity for walking upright. It is who we are.

Gregg, Justin. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal (p. 76).

More to come...

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