In life and business, learning to be ethical
In life and business, learning to be ethical
- January 10, 2014
- Kristen Monroe, political science Chancellor's Professor and UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics & Morality director, is quoted in The New York Times January 10, 2014
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From The New York Times:
Research shows that how we think we’re going to act when faced with a moral decision
and how we really do act are often vastly different. …Kristen Renwick Monroe, a professor
of political science at the University of California, Irvine, has long studied why
some people act righteously and others fail to. She has found in her research that
“the rescuers say, ‘What else could I do?'?” she said. “The bystander says, ‘I was
just one person? What could I do?'?” “We have to think, ‘Who am I and how do my actions
create who I am?'?”
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/your-money/in-life-and-business-learni....
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