Ethics and Behavior

ISSN: 1050-8422

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    Graduate recruitment offers: ethical and professional considerations for engineering graduate students and faculty members.Islam H. El-Adaway, Mohamad Abdul Nabi, Ramy Khalef, Tamima Elbashbishy, Gasser G. Ali, Radwa Eissa & Muaz O. Ahmed - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (7):597-615.
    According to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. [ABET], 2019), any approved engineering program must provide the student with “an ability to recognize ethical and professi...
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    Shifting foci of ethical concerns: a new generation enters the corporate world.Jennifer Franczak & Doreen E. Shanahan - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (7):616-636.
    Understanding the moral right and wrong in the context of business practice has long captivated the attention of researchers and business leaders (Brenkert, 2019). Fueled by ethical failures recoun...
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    Consensual ideas for prioritizing patients: correlates of preferences in the allocation of medical resources.Adrian Furnham, Charlotte Robinson & Simmy Grover - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (7):568-578.
    There is an extensive literature on the allocation of medical resources in many disciplines including ethics, law, medicine, psychology and sociology (Cicognani et al., 2007; Krütli et al., 2016; P...
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    Sharing for relief: associations of trauma-focused interviews and well-being among war-affected displaced populations in the Middle East.Hawkar Ibrahim, Katharina Goessmann & Frank Neuner - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (7):551-567.
    Every year, millions of people are affected by disasters and atrocities. Violent and disastrous life events can have significant effects on a person’s physical and psychological wellbeing. Post-tra...
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    Chinese attitudes to plagiarism: a genre analysis of editorial statements on plagiarism cases (1950s-1960s).Yongyan Li & John Flowerdew - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (7):579-596.
    Plagiarism is a discursive practice involving conceptions of creativity, originality, authorship, and transgression. With the increasing globalization of university education and academic research,...
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    See something, say something? exploring the gap between real and imagined moral courage.Nathan S. Kemper, Dylan S. Campbell & Anna-Kaisa Reiman - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (6):529-550.
    Research shows that people often do not intervene to stop immoral action from happening. However, limited information is available on why people fail to intervene. Two preregistered studies (Ns = 248, 131) explored this gap in the literature by staging a theft in front of participants and immediately interviewing them to inquire about their reasons for intervening or not intervening. Across both studies, most participants did not try to stop the theft or even report it to the experimenter afterward. Furthermore, (...)
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    The notion of moral competence in the scientific literature: a critical review of a thin concept.Dominic Martin, Carl-Maria Mörch & Emmanuelle Figoli - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (6):461-489.
    This critical review accomplished two main tasks: first, the article provides scope for identifying the most common conceptions of moral competence in the scientific literature, as well as the different ways to measure this type of competence. Having moral judgment is the most popular element of moral competence, but the literature introduces many other elements. The review also shows there is a plethora of ways to measure moral competence, either in standardized tests providing scores or other non-standardized tests. As a (...)
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    I’m doing the right thing! Technological intimate partner violence and social media use: the moderating role of moral absolutism and the mediating role of jealousy.Ioan-Alex Merlici, Alexandra Maftei, Mălina Corlătianu, Georgiana Lăzărescu, Oana Dănilă & Cornelia Măirean - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (6):490-504.
    The present study investigated the associations between social media use integration and Technological Intimate Partner Violence (TIPV) while also exploring the mediating role of the three dimensions of jealousy and the moderating role of moral absolutism. Our sample consisted of 404 adults aged 18 to 59. The results indicated a significant positive effect of social media use integration on cognitive jealousy and TIPV. Social media use integration was correlated with behavioral jealousy and TIPV, while TIPV was positively associated with all (...)
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    An examination of online cheating among business students through the lens of the Dark Triad and Fraud Diamond.Kenneth Smith, David Emerson, Timothy Haight & Bob Wood - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (6):433-460.
    Business students have long been noted for their differential proclivity to engage in academic misconduct. Unfortunately, the potential for misconduct has been exacerbated in recent years by rapid advances in technology, easy access to information, competitive pressures, and the proliferation of websites that provide students access to information that allows them to directly circumvent the learning process. Using a convenience sample of 631 students matriculating in various business majors at four U.S. universities and structural equations modeling procedures, this study assesses (...)
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    Moral recognition for workplace offenses underlies the punitive responses of managers: A functional theoretical approach to morality and punishment.Matthew L. Stanley, Christopher B. Neck & Christopher P. Neck - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (6):505-528.
    There is considerable variability across people in their punitive responses to employee offenses in the workplace. We attempt to explain this variability by positing a novel antecedent of punishment: moral recognition. We find consistent evidence that identifying moral considerations and implications for workplace offenses predicts punitive responses toward employees who commit those offenses. Drawing on functional theoretical accounts of morality and punishment, we posit that people are motivated to punish others to the extent that they believe a moral offense has (...)
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    The importance and efficacy of controlling for social desirability response bias.Richard A. Bernardi & Jonathan Nash - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):413-429.
    The extant literature acknowledges social desirability response bias (SDRB) is a pervasive issue for research that uses survey data and proposes several approaches to mitigating the issue, including: self-administered questionnaires, indirect questioning, and direct measurement. The objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence related to the importance of controlling for SDRB and the efficacy of these approaches. Using a primary sample of 365 business majors, we find the most common methodologies used to control for SDRB, self-administered questionnaires and (...)
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    Rising to our Obligation to Give.Diana Quito - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):430-431.
    The responsibility of protecting and fulfilling human rights has traditionally been designated to governments. In an ideal world, state actors and agencies would be able to secure the basic needs o...
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    “Research exceptionalism” in the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of scientific retractions in Scopus.Priscila Rubbo, Caroline Lievore, Celso Biynkievycz Dos Santos, Claudia Tania Picinin, Luiz Alberto Pilatti & Bruno Pedroso - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):339-356.
    This study aimed to outline the profile of retractions of scientific articles on COVID-19 published in journals indexed in the Scopus database between 2020 and 2021. To analyze the data, we used a bibliometric technique, with the Bibliometrix package in the R-Studio software, and descriptive statistics. Twenty-nine retractions were analyzed, and we found that the most common reasons for retraction were related to ethical issues and that 68.97% of authors have previously retracted articles. We concluded that there appears to have (...)
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    Nocebo effects on informed consent within medical and psychological settings: A scoping review.Nadine S. J. Stirling, Victoria M. E. Bridgland & Melanie K. T. Takarangi - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):387-412.
    Warning research participants and patients about potential risks associated with participation/treatment is a fundamental part of consent. However, such risk warnings might cause negative expectations and subsequent nocebo effects (i.e., negative expectations cause negative outcomes) in participants. Because no existing review documents how past research has quantitatively examined nocebo effects – and negative expectations – arising from consent risk warnings, we conducted a pre-registered scoping review (N = 9). We identified several methodological issues across these studies, which in addition to (...)
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    An exploratory analysis of generational differences in the World Values Surveys and their application to business leaders.Stephanie J. Thomason, Michael R. Weeks & Bella Galperin - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):357-370.
    We asked whether and how generations vary in their perceptions on moral matters ranging from their justifications of crime and questions concerning bodily autonomy. In our exploratory study using data from the World Values Survey, we found that Generations Y and Z are more likely than their older counterparts to justify crimes, such as cheating on taxes or stealing property, and to favor greater bodily autonomy in issues such as suicide and abortion. They also rank lower the importance of God (...)
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    Clinical adolescent decision-making: parental perspectives on confidentiality and consent in Belgium and The Netherlands.Jana Vanwymelbeke, David De Coninck, Koen Matthijs, Karla Van Leeuwen, Steven Lierman, Ingrid Boone, Peter de Winter & Jaan Toelen - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):371-386.
    This study investigated Belgian and Dutch parental opinions on confidentiality and consent regarding medical decisions about adolescents. Through an online survey, we presented six cases (three on confidentiality, and three on consent) to 1,382 Belgian and Dutch parents. We studied patterns in parental confidentiality and consent preferences across and between cases through binomial logistic regressions and latent class analysis. Participants often grant the right to consent for a treatment to the adolescent, but the majority diverges from the adolescent’s preferences regarding (...)
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    Ageism and moral distress in nurses caring for older patients.Mihaela Alexandra Gherman, Laura Arhiri & Andrei Corneliu Holman - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (4):322-338.
    This study explored the influence of healthcare ageism on nurses’ moral distress. Episodic interviews were conducted on 25 Romanian nurses in 2020. Thematic analysis revealed that all moral distress sources reported reflected macro-, meso- and micro-level ageism, benevolent and hostile, self- or other-directed, including stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination of older patients. The COVID-19 pandemic-related ageist measures increased healthcare ageism and transformed nurses’ representations of older patients accordingly. Nurses felt moral conflict both when passively witnessing ageist acts and when perpetrating them (...)
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  18. Exploring the association between character strengths and moral functioning.Hyemin Han, Kelsie J. Dawson, David I. Walker, Nghi Nguyen & Youn-Jeng Choi - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (4):286-303.
    We explored the relationship between 24 character strengths measured by the Global Assessment of Character Strengths (GACS), which was revised from the original VIA instrument, and moral functioning comprising postconventional moral reasoning, empathic traits and moral identity. Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) was employed to explore the best models, which were more parsimonious than full regression models estimated through frequentist regression, predicting moral functioning indicators with the 24 candidate character strength predictors. Our exploration was conducted with a dataset collected from 666 (...)
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    A lesson from MMR: is choice of vaccine the missing link in promoting vaccine confidence through informed consent?J. O’Neill - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (4):272-285.
    A recent study suggests that vaccine hesitancy amongst key demographics – including females, younger individuals, and certain ethnic groups – could undermine the pursuit of herd immunity against COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. At the same time, the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JVCI) indicated that it will not facilitate the choice between available COVID-19 vaccines. This paper reflects upon lessons from the introduction of the UK’s combined Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine strategy of the 1980s when (...)
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    How effectively do journal author guides communicate issues regarding plagiarism? A study of graduate students in Taiwan.Yu-Chih Sun - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (4):304-321.
    The purpose of the current study was to explore how effectively journal author guides communicate with graduate students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in Taiwan. A 10-item three-tier test was developed to explore the participants’ (1) confidence level in their reading comprehension of excerpts from author guides, (2) their actual comprehension, and (3) their understanding, if any. The test consisted of 10 excerpts from author guides that covered a variety of topics related to plagiarism. The test was administered (...)
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    Ethical standards for psychological practice in the UAE: current status and aspirations.Fatima Al-Darmaki, Saad Ibrahim Yaaqeib & Susan Partridge - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (3):205-219.
    There is a growing body of global research demonstrating the significance of mental health to individuals’ overall happiness and productivity. The research evidence has encouraged governmental agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to divert more attention toward the provision and development of mental health services. As the sector grows, one of the first issues of concern is the adherence to a unified set of ethics of practice. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the existing ethical (...)
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    Practice of common ethical standards in the field of counseling and psychotherapy in mainland China.Qin An, Xiubin Lin, Zhiqin Sang & Mingyi Qian - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (3):183-192.
    This paper will first introduce the development of professional ethics of counseling and psychotherapy in mainland China. Ethical awareness is often limited due to variations in training experiences. Aligning with ethics codes can also bring challenges due to nuances within Chinese culture. Furthermore, the authors discuss the ethical challenges regarding the principles of multiple relationships, informed consent, and confidentiality in the context of Chinese culture. These ethical issues are often discussed within an individualistic cultural frame and presentation from a collectivist (...)
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    Confidentiality, informed consent, and multiple relationships in four emerging regions.Jacqueline E. Akhurst & Mark M. Leach - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (3):175-182.
    There has been a rapid increase in the globalization of professions since the turn of the century, and this has been true for the psychology profession as well. Psychological research evidence, the...
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    Ethical codes in the Arab region: comparisons and differences.B. Khoury & L. Akoury-Dirani - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (3):193-204.
    Within the professional practice of psychology the code of ethics characterizes what is morally right or wrong, by means of a set of principles, values, and standards of conduct. While there are numerous international mental health organizations that incorporate ethical guidelines such as the APA and EFPA; these codes still fall short in providing guidelines for psychologists working in non-western cultures, especially when there are no universally adopted and valid cross-cultural ethics codes. This paper explores various challenges psychologists in the (...)
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    Informed consent, multiple relationships, and confidentiality: a comparison across four countries.Mark M. Leach & Jacqueline E. Akhurst - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (3):231-238.
    There are approximately 60 codes of ethics developed by national and regional psychological associations around the world, and there is wide variability in their structures, formats, lengths, and d...
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    Ethical aspects of psychological work in Ukraine: past, present, and future.Valeriia Palii - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (3):220-230.
    This article presents an attempt to analyze the specifics of ethical norms in the work of psychologists in Ukraine, with an analysis of historical preconditions, current challenges and cultural characteristics. Ukraine, as a modern developing country striving for integration into the European space, is intensively developing psychology and trying to overcome the problems that it has today. Having well-trained psychologists, psychology in Ukraine has many vulnerabilities, such as the lack of legislation in this field and licensing. Professional communities, by virtue (...)
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    Sexual attractions and boundary crossings among sport psychology graduate students and professionals.Macey L. Arnold, Tess M. Palmateer & Trent Petrie - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (2):115-129.
    The training relationship between sport psychology professionals (SPPs) and their students is a critical aspect of graduate training. Maintaining ethical, appropriate boundaries within training relationships is imperative, as boundary crossings can have deleterious effects on students. SPPs (N = 152) and Sport Psychology graduate students (N = 165) completed The Survey of Applied Sport Psychologists to explore their experiences and perceptions of sexual attractions and boundary crossings within training relationships. Nearly 30% of SPPs acknowledged sexual attractions toward their students, yet (...)
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    Ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy with older adults: A grounded theory analysis.Shai Lederman & Gaby Shefler - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (2):101-114.
    This study explores how therapists deal with ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy with older adults. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 therapists and analyzed using grounded theory methodology. Findings clustered around three themes: (i) respecting autonomy when interacting with family of vulnerable and dependent older patients; (ii) prioritizing respecting autonomy in risk situations and in suspected financial abuse without impaired judgment; and (iii) prioritizing protecting the patient in risk situations of patients with dementia and of suspected physical abuse or neglect. These (...)
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    The role of ethical trustworthiness in shaping trust and affective commitment in schools.A. Lleo, P. Ruiz-Palomino, M. Guillen & E. Marrades-Pastor - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (2):151-173.
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of school principal trustworthiness components (i.e., ability, integrity, benevolence) in helping shape teacher trust and affective commitment within schools. Using data from 1,026 teachers in Spain and structural equation modeling (via EQS 6.3), this study establishes how a principal’s integrity and benevolence are key in determining, both directly and indirectly (via trust in the principal), teachers’ affective commitment to their school. It also reveals that the perceived ability of a principal (...)
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    Beyond the bump: ethical and legal considerations for psychologists providing services to pregnant individuals who use substances.Anna M. Maralit - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (2):89-100.
    Psychologists providing services to pregnant individuals using substances face a number of complicated ethical dilemmas, however guidance in this area is sparse. This article presents the ethical and legal issues that may arise in working with this population within the framework of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2017). The recommendations made are designed to assist psychologists with understanding factors that contribute to substance use during pregnancy, navigating punitive policies and liability risk, and (...)
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    Why do students cheat? Perceptions, evaluations, and motivations.Talia Waltzer & Audun Dahl - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (2):130-150.
    Academic cheating, a common and consequential form of dishonesty, has puzzled moral psychologists and educators for decades. The present research examined a new theoretical approach to the perceptions, evaluations, and motivations that shape students’ decisions to cheat. We tested key predictions of this approach by systematically examining students’ accounts of their own cheating. In two studies, we interviewed undergraduates in psychology (n = 68) and engineering (n = 123) classes about their past experiences with plagiarism or other cheating. Interviews assessed (...)
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    Evolution of research on honesty and dishonesty in academic work: a bibliometric analysis of two decades.Imran Ali & Saadia Mahmud - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (1):55-69.
    ABSTRACT The discourse on honesty and dishonesty in academic work has seen considerable growth over the past two decades. This study empirically analyses the shifts in the literature over the past two decades in the research focus and most prolific authors, institutions, countries, and journals. A broad list of terms was employed from the Glossary of Academic Integrity to shortlist journal articles (n = 782) from Scopus. A bibliometric analysis was conducted for each decade and the results were compared. Research (...)
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    Subjective norms and social media: predicting ethical perception and consumer intentions during a secondary crisis.Meagan E. Brock Baskin, Timothy A. Hart, Akhilesh Bajaj, R. Nicholas Gerlich, Kristina D. Drumheller & Emily S. Kinsky - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (1):70-88.
    When firms face crisis, the instant and open channels of social media communication create a double-edged sword. While corporations can more quickly communicate with stakeholders, any missteps will have drastic and nearly immediate repercussions. What are the relationships among social media, subjective norms, attitudes, and intentions during corporate crisis? We explore this phenomenon via a study of a crisis faced by Lowe’s, an international home improvement store, and how current and potential customers reacted. By utilizing a structural equations model to (...)
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    Multilevel dynamics of moral identity conflict: professional and personal values in ethically-charged situations.YingFei Gao Héliot & Lara Carminati - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (1):37-54.
    ABSTRACT Through an interdisciplinary literature review, this propositional paper explores the emergence and unfolding of professionals’ moral identity conflicts involving important but contrasting values. Building on the exemplary case of physicians’ professional-religious dilemmas in End-of-Life circumstances, we develop a multilevel model of professional-personal identity conflict dynamics in ethically-charged situations in which we integrate individual-level mechanisms with organizational-level boundary conditions, namely peer social support and ethical climate, in relation to psychological well-being. Our conceptual model contributes to the ethics, identity and human (...)
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    Navigating the multidimensionality of social media presence: ethical considerations and recommendations for psychologists.Evelyn A. Hunter, Alexis Jones & Kareema M. Smith - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (1):18-36.
    ABSTRACT To date, the American Psychological Association Ethical Standards and Code of Conduct does not include direct guidance about how psychologists should navigate social media. Given the variety of roles psychologists can choose to engage on social media, it is imperative that guidelines are established. These guidelines should consider the multidimensionality that exists as psychologists may choose to present on social media through a personal presence, a business presence, and/or even an influencer/content creator presence. Specific ethical considerations and recommendations are (...)
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    No more than discomfort: the trauma film paradigm meets definitions of minimal-risk research.Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Reginald D. V. Nixon & Nadine S. J. Stirling - 2023 - Ethics and Behavior 33 (1):1-17.
    ABSTRACT Despite Institutional Review Board concerns about psychological harm arising from research participation, evidence from trauma-questionnaire research suggests that participation is typically well-tolerated by participants. Yet, it is unclear how participant experiences of in-lab trauma simulations align with IRB ethical guidelines. Thus, we compared reactions to a trauma film paradigm with reactions to a positive film task or cognitive tasks. Overall, relative to other conditions, the trauma film was well-tolerated by participants: they generally reported low-to-moderate negative emotions, moderate benefits, and (...)
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